The world's most precise water costs $120,000 a gallon

A five-milliliter vial of Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water sells for one hundred fifty-nine dollars — roughly one hundred twenty thousand dollars a gallon, Boing Boing reports. Labs purchase it because water's freezing point varies based on its elemental isotopes.

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