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Two sides of the acid–base story

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The ability of the water surface to donate or accept protons critically influences vital processes in chemistry and biology, but intense disagreement persists regarding this property. Researchers show new evidence that the air side of the air/water interface is more basic than the aqueous one.

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Figure 1: Basicity of the water interface probed by ESI–MS.

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  1. Richard Saykally is in the Department of Chemistry, University of California and the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, 94720 California, USA,

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