Water encoded information

We have defined above a way of quantifying the structure of water based on the profile of fx values that encode the number of each possible joined state of a molecule. It is now possible to use this profile as a measure of the structure of water at different temperatures. As an application of this metric it is possible to relate this to physical properties. We have shown the results of our earlier work in Table 3.3. The reader is encouraged to repeat these and to explore other structure-property relationships using the fx as single or multiple variables. A unified parameter derived from the five fx values expressed as a fraction of 1.0, might be the Shannon information content. This could be calculated from all the data created in the above studies and used as a single variable in the analysis of water and other liquid properties. 

If we calculate the H values for various water temperatures, we see results as shown in Table 4.4. The importance of the information content encoded in the H value in these studies is that it is a single-numerical description of the system, water in this case, that can be used to relate to physical property changes occurring at different temperatures. This approach can be used to evaluate a property change such as the freezing point depression. 

Information Encoded into Water During the Hydrological Cycle... 

While water is stored underground, the radioactive isotopes of tritium, 14C, and 36C decay and the concentrations left indicate the age of the water. At the same time, radiogenic 4He accumulates, providing another age indicator. A summary of the information encoded into water during its cycle is given in Fig. 1.1. 

Exercise 1.4 The introductory chapter is devoted to the encoding of information into water along the hydrological cycle. At which point is all this information erased ... 

Information encoded into water during its cycle (section 1.3)... 

A set of thirty different descriptors [Stanton and Jurs, 1990] which combine shape and electronic information to characterize molecules and therefore encode features responsible for polar interactions between molecules. The molecule representation used for deriving CPSA descriptors views molecule atoms as hard spheres defined by the - van der Waals radius. The - solvent-accessible surface area SASA is used as the molecular surface area it is calculated using a sphere with a radius of 1.5 A to approximate the contact surface formed when a water molecule interacts with the considered molecule. Moreover, the contact surface where polar interactions can take place is characterized by a specific electronic distribution obtained by mapping atomic partial charges on the solvent-accessible surface. 

Besides a source of energy, organisms require a source of materials for biosynthesis of cellular matter and products in cell operation, maintenance and reproduction. These materials must supply all the elements necessary to accomplish this. Some microorganisms utilize elements in the form of simple compounds, others require more complex compounds, usually related to the form in which they ultimately will be incorporated in the cellular material. The four predominant types of polymeric cell compounds are the lipids (fats), the polysaccharides (starch, cellulose, etc.), the information-encoded polydeoxyribonucleic acid and polyribonucleic acids (DNA and RNA), and proteins. Lipids are essentially insoluble in water and can thus be found in the nonaqueous biological phases, especially the plasma and organelle membranes. Lipids also constitute portions ofmore complex molecules, such as lipoproteins and liposaccharides. Lipids also serve as the polymeric biological fuel storage. 

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