A dense, semi-plastic form of water found on surfaces on which water has condensed; also known as anomalous water or orthowater. As its name implies, it is water in an extraordinary form. Claims to have discovered water with unusual properties were first made by scientists in the Soviet Union in 1968. Water condensed from vapor into very small glass or fused quartz vessels showed atypical vapor pressure, freezing point, and so on. This led to a series of investigations of this strange substance in laboratories in several countries, over several years, all apparently bearing out and extending the original claims. Polywater showed lowered vapor pressure and melting point; raised viscosity, density, and thermal stability; and Raman and infrared spectra that were abnormal.
Water normal water has, of course, many very unusual properties; if it were not for these properties, the present terrestrial life forms would not have been possible. This could have been yet another addition to water’s existing catalog polymerized water, two or more water molecules bonded together, perhaps? But eventually scientists became suspicious and closer examination showed that the anomalies were all accounted for by the presence of impurities.