By Brian Gallagher
Donning his regular work attire — jeans and a Hawaiian shirt — Richard Saykally tells me in four words the answer to a question I had often pondered in the shower: Why is water wet?
“Strong tetrahedral hydrogen bonding,” he said. The reply didn’t provide the instant illumination I was…
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