Originally posted by rotiart
So your saying that magneto would be able to affect pure h2o that was stilled and has no mineral deposits... Yes.
Water, being dipolar, can be partly aligned by an electric field and this may be easily shown by the movement of a stream of water by an electrostatic source [163]. Very high field strengths (5 x 109 V m-1) are required to reorient water in ice such that freezing is inhibited [251], with lower fields (105 V m-1) encouraging ice formation in supercooled water [1327] by weakening the hydrogen bonding. Even partial alignment of the water molecules with the electric field will cause pre-existing hydrogen bonding to become bent or broken. The balance between hydrogen bonding and van der Waals attractions is thus biased towards van der Waals attractions giving rise to less cyclic hydrogen bonded clustering.
High interfacial fields (E > 109 V m-1, > thermal energy) at electrode (or charged) surfaces can cause a phase transition with an ordered layering of water at high densities similar to ice X [420]. Depending on the value of the field, the restriction pressures may cause melting or freezing as corresponding to the normal phase behavior [873]. High fields (E ~109 V m-1) might also be found (perhaps surprisingly) at the surface of hydrophilic molecules where caused by the partial charges on the atoms and the small distances between the surface and first hydration layer. High fields affect hydrogen bonding in an anisotropic manner, hydrogen bonds being strengthened along the field but weakened orthogonal to the field [582]. At low fields, however, both translational and rotational motions may be reduced. Electric fields are expected to increase the differences in the properties between the ortho and para forms of water [1186]. Electric fields also lower the dielectric constant of the water [616], due to the resultant partial or complete destruction of the hydrogen-bonded network.
Pure water is a poor conductor of electricity but its also a poor insulator as it always contains ions due to self-ionization.
Magneto Black Adam Doom And Superman have to be written down so they don't expose holes in every story they're in.
a quick example is Black Adam's tendency to make mad decisions [with no apparent imput from the wisdom of Solomon] while whenever Captain Marvel has a judgement call the wisdom of solomon is often shown on panel providing advice.
Both Marvels hear the wisdom of solomon at all times.
another example is superman often needing to take a closer look at a situation, forgetting he has telescopic and xray vision.
