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Experiments on modulation interference microscopy and measurement of light scattering matrix elements showed that double distilled water purified from solid impurities contains macroscopic scatterers of optical radiation. It follows from numerical calculation that these scatterers can be micrometer-scale clusters formed by polydisperse air bubbles with effective radii of 70 to 90 nm. The fractal dimension of such clusters is within 2.4–2.8 and their concentration is ∼ 106 cm−3.
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Bunkin, N.F., Suyazov, N.V., Shkirin, A.V. et al. Study of nanostructure of highly purified water by measuring scattering matrix elements of laser radiation. Phys. Wave Phen. 16, 243–260 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X08040018
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