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orthowater
orthowater n. 
/ˈɔrθoʊˌwɑdər/ Chemistry (now rare) a supposed polymeric form of water; = polywater n.
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orthowater1966
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1966 B. V. Derjaguin in Discuss. Faraday Soc. 42 118 The usual state of water and certain other liquids is thermodynamically metastable... It would be convenient to call ‘usual water’ metawater, and the anomalous columns—orthowater.
1970 Compton Yearbk. 176/2 The substance, variously called orthowater, anomalous water, polywater, and superwater, differs radically from ordinary water.
1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) xiv. 741 The supposed compound, variously called anomalous water, orthowater, [etc.]..was prepared in minute amounts by condensing purified ‘ordinary water’ into fine, freshly drawn glass capillaries of diameter 1–3μm.
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