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Study reveals flaw in long-accepted approximation used in water simulations - EurekAlert


Computational scientists at the Department of Energy&rsquo;s Oak Ridge National Laboratory&nbsp;have published a study in the&nbsp;<em>Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation</em>&nbsp;that questions a long-accepted factor in simulating the molecular dynamics of water: the 2 femtosecond (one quadrillionth&nbsp;of a second) time step.&nbsp;

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