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polywater

polywater

1 9.9
A claimed form of water with strange qualities that is now known not to be real
  • noun
  • /ˈpɒliˌwɔːtər/
  • Archaic
: polagua
  • Many articles were published about polywater before its existence was disproven.

Examples

  • Is polywater real?

  • What is polywater?

  • In the 1960s, researchers claimed to have discovered polywater with properties different from ordinary water.

  • The scientific community eventually determined that polywater was the result of contamination, not a new substance.

  • Scientists once believed that polywater had special characteristics that differentiated it from regular water.

  • The idea of polywater sparked curiosity, but it was later shown to be a misconception.

  • Research into polywater highlighted the importance of rigorous scientific validation in experimental findings.

Surface Forms

polywater singular
polywaters plural

Morphology

polywater = water (semi-transparent) = poly + water

The word is formed from the prefix 'poly-' plus 'water', but the technical scientific sense is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

The word polywater comes from the prefix poly- and the word water, where poly- means 'many', as in polygon or polyglot. Scientists used the name because they thought ordinary water had formed long, 'many' chains, but that idea was later shown to be contamination, so polywater became the name for a supposed form of water that does not exist.