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word mayim. As we have learned earlier in this chapter, the structure of mayim
insinuates that this substance is associated somehow with “two,” or at least with
some kind of symmetry .
This guesswork is reinforced when observing the structure of the word “water.”
It is

מ + י + מ

M.I.M (mem, yod, mem)

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Thus, both the way that the word mayim is pronounced and its letter
composition point at some profound symmetry, or, perhaps, at the existence
of symmetrical “double,” which is associated with “water” (the same way that
“hands” or “legs,” in Hebrew, are associated with symmetrical “double”).
How can both the structure of the plural “water,” the composition of the word
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(M.I.M) and the way it is pronounced (mayim ), all point to a symmetrical “dou-
ble”? What is it in “water” that would associate it with a symmetrical double?
What could this possibly be?
Of course, for a modern-era human being, these are all rhetorical questions. For
the uninitiated, here is some description of the particular properties of water and
its molecules, taken from various sources (mostly, from sources on the Internet
that are in the public domain).

5.4.2 Water Molecular Structure and History of Discovery
The water molecule contains an atom of oxygen (O) and two of hydrogen (H).

This molecule is usually denoted by chemists as H 2O. The atoms in a water mol-
ecule are arranged at the corners of an isosceles triangle, with the oxygen atom
located at the point where the two equal sides meet. The angle between these sides
is about 105°.
Figure 5.1 displays the structure of the water molecule. This structure

is symmetrical in that it is left unchanged by a rotation of 180° about the

vertical axis through the oxygen atom, and by planes parallel and perpendicu-
lar to the molecule. This symmetry is described mathematically by the point

group C 2v.

Early chemists confused hydrogen with other gases until British physicist and
chemist Henry Cavendish described the properties of the hydrogen gas in the
mid-1700s. Many scientists before Cavendish had made the “flammable gas” by

mixing metals with acids. Cavendish called the gas “flammable air” and studied