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Surface water does the job: Molybdenum blue solutions contain unique nanosized wheel-shaped polyoxometalate-type clusters, while structured surface water on the clusters initiates the assembly, leading to the super cluster shown in the figure, which contains an internal “water pool”.
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Oleinikova et al. (2007) studied this question.
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