WATER LAYERING

WATER LAYERING BEHAVIOR
All of these properties come into play in balancing the roles of water in living tissues, but we also need to explore very recent studies to understand the relation between cell physiology and Dr. Pollack’s “fourth phase of water.”

Decades ago, Dr. Gerald Pollack of the University of Washington found pure water next to ionized plastic surfaces behaving in a previously “undocumented manner,” forming very thick organized layers. These layers exhibit properties of both liquids and solids, can grow to become millions of molecules thick, and develop a negative charge, excluding protons (hydrogen nuclei) into solution as hydronium (acid) ions, H3O+ (Figure 5). Using only energy from incident light or infrared, such sheets exclude most solutes and suspended particles, so Pollack has named these sheets Exclusion Zone (EZ) water, or the fourth phase of water—a liquid crystalline phase, added to gas, liquid and solid.


Figure 5: Diagram of EZ water, by Pollack, G. from http://faculty.washington.edu/ghp/images/stories/
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The molecular secret to the EZ water is that it forms hexagonal honeycomb sheets, sequentially staggered over one another (Figure 6). These liquid-crystals form coherent domains, acting in many respects as a single, superconducting quantum unit (Figure 7).


Figure 6. A hypothetical radial cation hexamer. Davidson, Lauritzen & Seneff. 2013. “Biological water dynamics and entropy: a biophysical origin of cancer and other diseases.” Entropy 15: 3822-3876.


Figure 7: Shifted hexagonal layers of EZ water. Redrawn after: Davidson, Lauritzen & Seneff. 2013. “Biological water dynamics and entropy: a biophysical origin of cancer and other diseases.” Entropy 15: 3822-3876; reproduced from Chaplin (2013).

WATER LAYERING BEHAVIOR
All of these properties come into play in balancing the roles of water in living tissues, but we also need to explore very recent studies to understand the relation between cell physiology and Dr. Pollack’s “fourth phase of water.”

Decades ago, Dr. Gerald Pollack of the University of Washington found pure water next to ionized plastic surfaces behaving in a previously “undocumented manner,” forming very thick organized layers.2 These layers exhibit properties of both liquids and solids, can grow to become millions of molecules thick, and develop a negative charge, excluding protons (hydrogen nuclei) into solution as hydronium (acid) ions, H3O+ (Figure 5). Using only energy from incident light or infrared, such sheets exclude most solutes and suspended particles, so Pollack has named these sheets Exclusion Zone (EZ) water, or the fourth phase of water—a liquid crystalline phase, added to gas, liquid and solid.

Figure 5: Diagram of EZ water, by Pollack, G. from http://faculty.washington.edu/ghp/images/stories/
separationCharge.png.

The molecular secret to the EZ water is that it forms hexagonal honeycomb sheets, sequentially staggered over one another (Figure 6). These liquid-crystals form coherent domains, acting in many respects as a single, superconducting quantum unit (Figure 7).

Figure 6. A hypothetical radial cation hexamer. Davidson, Lauritzen & Seneff. 2013. “Biological water dynamics and entropy: a biophysical origin of cancer and other diseases.” Entropy 15: 3822-3876.

Figure 7: Shifted hexagonal layers of EZ water. Redrawn after: Davidson, Lauritzen & Seneff. 2013. “Biological water dynamics and entropy: a biophysical origin of cancer and other diseases.” Entropy 15: 3822-3876; reproduced from Chaplin (2013).