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Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it shoul...
> water conducts protons at least 10 times more readily than typical conductive materials
Protons, not photons!
choonway
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Shouldn't it be phonons?
adrianN
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotthuss_mechanism
drbw
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No - they mean hydrogen ions, which are just bare protons.
dnautics
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well no single proton actually makes it all the way across, so it is a phonon!
saganus
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Ah yes! you are right.
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Protons, not photons!