As I sit in my study at the end of the day listening to the heavy rain and wondering when I should open a bottle of red fluid that contains 85.5 per cent water, my mind strayed to that weird molecule we all take for granted. Water.
As soon as liquid water was on the planet’s surface some 4 billion years ago, life appeared.
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Ian Plimer’s latest book ‘Green Murder’ (Connor Court Publishing) could not have been written without observing bubbles rise.
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