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CHAPTER 5 “DOUBLE” AND A MESSAGE OF SYMMETRY
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Figure 5.1. The water molecule.

it. He demonstrated in 1766 that sulfuric acid reacted with metals to produce

flammable air. Later, Cavendish burned his flammable air in regular air to produce

water, and only water. Many historians consider Cavendish to be the principal dis-
coverer of the hydrogen gas and its role in water, although Scottish engineer James

Watt reported that he had produced water at about the same time as Cavendish
(and determined—a most unusual determination for the time—that water was
composed of two gases). The first decomposition of water, via electrolysis, into

its consituent hydrogen and oxygen , was done in 1800 by William Nicholson
(1765–1844), an English chemist.

5.4.3 Mayim Summary
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• The word mayim, given in the plural as a symmetrical double (like
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yadayim, “hands”), indicates that something about water is double in a
symmetrical way.
• Both the composition of the letters in the Hebrew word for “water” and
the letters’ sequential arrangement mimics the structure of a molecule of
water.

• The water molecule includes double hydrogen atoms, arranged around a
single oxygen atom in a symmetrical way.

5.5 Life

Life in Hebrew is haim (like the author’s first name). It is pronounced in Hebrew

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chayim. Like with mayim, this word is loaded with mysteries. We elaborate
here on some.