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Researchers Watch Water Form at the Molecular Scale for the First Time

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Researchers Watch Water Form at the Molecular Scale for the first Time.

Researchers have observed hydrogen and oxygen merge to form water at the nanoscale.

Researchers say it could be harnessed as a practical solution for rapidly generating water in arid environments, including on other planets.

The Northwestern team imagines that others, in the future, potentially could prepare hydrogen-filled palladium before traveling into space.

Then, to generate water for drinking or for watering plants, travelers will only need to add oxygen.

“It’s a nanoscale analog of the Chandrayaan-1 moon rover experiment,” Koo said.