A new way to detect ortho-para conversion in water

A new way to detect ortho-para conversion in water
Southampton, UK (SPX) Aug 27, 2015 - New research by scientists from the University of Southampton has found that water molecules react differently to electric fields, which could provide a new way to study spin isomers at the single-molecule level. Water molecules exist in two forms or 'isomers', ortho and para, that have different nuclear spin states. In ortho-water, the nuclear spins are parallel to one another, and in par ... more

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