@uncover.quantum: Water covers 71 percent of our planet. It falls from our sky. It runs through our bodies. And until now, nobody trap hydrogen and oxygen gases inside nanoscale honeycomb structures, tiny reactors small enough to observe chemistry at the atomic level. Inside those chambers, using palladium as a catalyst, they recorded the precise moment hydrogen and oxygen atoms combined and produced water in real time. The directly observed by human eyes. This matters beyond the spectacle. By watching exactly how palladium enables this reaction, the team identified conditions that allow water to form fuel cells, catalytic engineering, and any technology that needs to generate or control water production in a precise environment. We didn’t just observe a chemical reaction. We watched the birth of the molecule that makes life on this planet possible. And we almost went all of human history without ever seeing it. Source: Northwestern University

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