Structural duality of water

Abstract

The structure of water and its properties have been disputed for a long time in everyday life as well as in the scientific world. Some claim that boiling water in a samovar (samovar is an ancient Russian device for boiling water that works on coal or firewood and slowly maintains water in a boiling condition), so called 'tea from saucer', is healthy. While its 'polymeric' structure is destroyed, it is necessary and useful (pleasant) to drink cooled boiling water almost at once because the body will accept it more easily. Others use melt water stating that the 'polymeric' structure of melt water above all things approaches physiological processes in a human organism. It is possible that both points of view are valid because all properties described above are inherent to water. Many arguments can be found supporting one or another scientific concept, but those who say that it is necessary to investigate this question more deeply and impartially are always right. One thing is unequivocal: water is a complex mobile system with abnormal properties which can be changed radically with the slightest fluctuations of both internal and external conditions of its existence.