Re:The Rise and Fall of Polywater
by snazz on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:31PM
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Did the polywater "invention" come around the same time as the discovery of tritiated water (aka super-heavy water or T2O)? That could explain why this was somewhat easily believed during that time.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritiated_water references Jones (1952). "The Triple Point Temperature of Tritium Oxide". A Google Scholar search shows publications about "tritium oxide" in the late 1940s, like https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1746932 from 1948.
The linked-to piece says "1966, after nearly four years of work".
That puts at least 14 years minimum between them, and likely more.