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This talk reviews briefly some of the information that comes to light concerning the structure of liquid water when one pays attention to the connectivity properties of the hydrogen bonds. The evidence generally supports the picture that liquid water is a "transient gel" characterized by the presence of locally-structured regions of a characteristic linear dimension of about 8 A.
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Stanley et al. (1984) studied this question.
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