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A series of until now unknown phenomena ongoing in water was discovered in laboratory experiments, which made gravimetric measurements, with the necessarily extreme precision, impossible. This behaviour of water, which we call autothixotropy, is the subject of the presented report on the experimental research. We also propose a possible explanation. Finally, the dependence of the manifestation of autothixotropy on the degree of molecular translative freedom is mentioned and its possible relevance to the cytoskeleton is pointed out.
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Vybíral, B., Vorávček, P. (2008). “Autothixotropy” of Water – An Unknown Physical Phenomenon, and its Possible Importance for the Cytoskeleton. In: Pollack, G.H., Chin, WC. (eds) Phase Transitions in Cell Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8651-9_10
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