| Preface |
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| Acknowlegements |
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| How to Read this Book |
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Chapter 1 Rainbow Dancing in the Worm |
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1 | (6) |
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1 | (2) |
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3 | (1) |
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Intercommunication is the Key |
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4 | (1) |
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Water is the Means, Medium, and Message |
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5 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Weird and Wonderful Water |
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7 | (8) |
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7 | (2) |
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9 | (1) |
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Huge Diversity of Supramolecular Structures |
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10 | (1) |
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Water, Water in Every Guise |
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11 | (4) |
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Chapter 3 Cooperative Coherent Water |
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Cooperativity through Hydrogen Bonds |
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15 | (2) |
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Resonant Energy Transfer through Hydrogen-bonded Networks |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (3) |
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Model Fits Well with the Data |
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22 | (1) |
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Water Quasicrystals and the Golden Mean |
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23 | (2) |
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Two-state Model Confirmed |
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25 | (4) |
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Chapter 4 Water and Colloid Crystals: The New Age of Alchemy |
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29 | (10) |
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Colloid Crystal Diversity Defies Description |
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29 | (1) |
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The New Age of Alchemy in Water |
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30 | (3) |
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Can Like Charges Attract? |
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33 | (1) |
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Colloid Quasicrystals Self-assemble in Water |
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34 | (5) |
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Chapter 5 Quantum Coherent Water |
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39 | (12) |
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39 | (1) |
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What is Quantum Coherence? |
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40 | (1) |
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Quantum Coherence from NMR |
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41 | (4) |
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Quantum Magnetic Signatures |
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45 | (3) |
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Quantum Coherence in Symphonic Structures |
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48 | (3) |
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51 | (10) |
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Coupling Matter to Electromagnetic Field |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (3) |
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Coherent Water as a Source of Almost-free Electrons |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (3) |
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Quantum Coherent Water and Life |
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58 | (3) |
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Chapter 7 QED Water II: Non-thermal EMF Effects |
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61 | (10) |
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Debate over Non-thermal EMF Effects |
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61 | (1) |
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The "Thermal Threshold" Fallacy |
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62 | (1) |
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Specificity of Non-thermal Effects |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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Ion Cyclotron Resonance for Amino Acids |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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How Ion Cyclotron Resonance Could be Explained |
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66 | (5) |
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Chapter 8 QED Water III: Homeopathy |
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71 | (12) |
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Homeopathy and the Memory of Water |
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71 | (1) |
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DNA Emits EM Signals at High Dilution |
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72 | (2) |
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DNA Sequence Recreated from Its EM Signature in Pure Water |
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74 | (1) |
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Bringing Bacterium to Life from Its DNA Signals? |
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75 | (1) |
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DNA EM Signals from Earth's Field NMR |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (2) |
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Quantum Biology and Consciousness Arriving |
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79 | (4) |
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Chapter 9 Dancing with Ions |
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83 | (10) |
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83 | (1) |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (2) |
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Dancing with Multiple Partners |
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88 | (5) |
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Chapter 10 Dancing with Proteins |
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93 | (12) |
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The Importance of Proteins |
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93 | (2) |
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The Importance of Enzymes |
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95 | (1) |
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Supercool Hydration Water |
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96 | (2) |
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More Hydration Shells Revealed |
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98 | (2) |
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Ferroelectric Hydration Water |
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100 | (1) |
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Quantum Dance of Proteins |
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101 | (4) |
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Chapter 11 Dancing with DNA |
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105 | (10) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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Quantum Chemistry and DNA Conductance |
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109 | (4) |
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113 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 Water at Solid Interfaces |
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115 | (16) |
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115 | (1) |
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Interfacial Water in the Ideal |
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115 | (2) |
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Probing the Interface Directly |
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117 | (3) |
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Water Forms Massive Exclusion Zones |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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Light Charges Up Water, QED |
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125 | (2) |
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Interfacial Water is Liquid Crystalline Water |
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127 | (1) |
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Of Colloid Crystals and Protein Folding |
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127 | (4) |
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Chapter 13 Water Electric |
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131 | (8) |
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Hopping Down a Daisy Chain |
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131 | (1) |
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Charging Up the Batteries of Life |
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132 | (1) |
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Proton Conduction Along Biological Membranes |
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133 | (2) |
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Nanotubes, Water Transport, and Proton Wires |
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135 | (4) |
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Chapter 14 Water + Air = Life |
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139 | (8) |
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139 | (2) |
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Origin of Life at Air-Water Interfaces |
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141 | (1) |
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Recreating Life in the Lab |
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142 | (5) |
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Chapter 15 Water Meets Air |
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147 | (10) |
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147 | (2) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (7) |
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Chapter 16 Water Meets Membranes |
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157 | (12) |
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Membranes: the Vital Interface |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (2) |
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161 | (5) |
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Ca2+ Dehydrates Phosphate Groups |
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166 | (3) |
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Chapter 17 The Rainbow Ensemble |
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169 | (16) |
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How Proteins and Ions Do Water's Quantum Jazz |
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (3) |
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Support for the Law of Matching Water Affinities |
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172 | (1) |
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Why Quantum Jazz is Possible |
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173 | (3) |
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176 | (1) |
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Water's Effortless Action through Ions |
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176 | (2) |
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178 | (1) |
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179 | (1) |
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Making ATP Without Enzymes |
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180 | (1) |
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Enzyme Action Depends on Two-state Water |
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181 | (4) |
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Chapter 18 True Portrait of the Cell |
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185 | (18) |
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What's Wrong with Our Picture of the Cell? |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (2) |
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From Proto-life to Cell and Protoplasm |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (2) |
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The Cytoskeleton in all Cells |
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192 | (4) |
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Metabolic Channelling in the Cytomatrix |
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196 | (1) |
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Electromagnetic Signalling and Assembly of Metabolons |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (5) |
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Chapter 19 Water in Nanospace |
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203 | (14) |
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Structured Water at £1.50 a Bottle |
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203 | (1) |
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First Sighting of Structured Water |
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204 | (1) |
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The Devil in Small Nanotubes |
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205 | (2) |
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Defining Phases and Structures under Confinement |
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207 | (1) |
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Phase Diagram of Confined Water |
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207 | (1) |
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A Diversity of Liquid Crystalline Structures |
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208 | (1) |
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Water in Extended Nanospace |
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209 | (2) |
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Reverse Micelles for "Superactivity" |
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211 | (3) |
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Water Dynamics in Reverse Micelles |
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214 | (3) |
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Chapter 20 Protein and Water in Nanospace |
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217 | (16) |
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Water Nanotubes, Collagen, Acupuncture, and Energy Medicine |
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217 | (2) |
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219 | (2) |
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Fast Proton Exchange Between All Structured Water |
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221 | (1) |
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Phase Transitions of Water Structure |
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222 | (1) |
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Protein's Secret Water Music in Nanospace |
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223 | (1) |
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More Like Nanospaces in a Living Cell and More Precise Measurements |
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223 | (3) |
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A Diversity of Correlated Protein-Water Dynamics |
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226 | (1) |
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Crystallographic Structures are Misleading |
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227 | (1) |
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Implications for Living Cells and Recapitulation |
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228 | (5) |
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Chapter 21 Fire and Water |
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233 | (12) |
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Water and Redox Chemistry of Life |
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233 | (2) |
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Oxygen from Water Pivotal for Life on Earth |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (2) |
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Oxygen and the Evolution of Complex Life Forms |
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239 | (1) |
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Oxygen is Stable, Abundant, and Fit for Life |
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240 | (1) |
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Oxygen in Action, Past and Present |
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240 | (2) |
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Oxygen and the Complexity of the Metabolic Network |
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242 | (3) |
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Chapter 22 Water Fuels the Dynamo of Life |
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245 | (12) |
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Water and Energy Metabolism |
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245 | (1) |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (8) |
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Chapter 23 Electronic Induction Animates Life |
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257 | (26) |
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Sweeping Away Old and New Cobwebs |
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257 | (1) |
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What's Really Responsible for the Membrane Potential |
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257 | (2) |
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259 | (1) |
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Potassium Bound to the Cytoplasm |
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260 | (1) |
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Potassium Bound Selectively Inside the Cell |
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261 | (2) |
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Ling's Association-Induction Hypothesis |
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263 | (3) |
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266 | (1) |
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Ling's Hypothesis and the Liquid Crystalline Cell |
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267 | (3) |
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POM and the Exclusion of Solutes |
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270 | (1) |
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Support for the Liquid Crystalline Cell and Ling's Al Hypothesis |
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271 | (3) |
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Ling's Al Hypothesis in Contemporary Cell Biology |
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274 | (3) |
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Electronic Induction Animates the Cell |
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277 | (1) |
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278 | (5) |
| Glossary |
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283 | (18) |
| References |
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301 | (20) |
| Author Index |
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321 | (4) |
| Subject Index |
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