Water plays a key role in shaping our planet and making life possible. Given the abundance of water on Earth’s surface and in its interior, chemical reactions involving water, namely hydration and dehydration reactions, feature prominently in nature and are critical to the complex set of geochemical and biochemical reactions that make our planet unique. This paper highlights some fundamental aspects of hydration and dehydration reactions in the solid Earth, biology, and man-made materials, as well as their connections to carbon cycling on our planet.

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要有水：水合/脱水反应如何伴随关键的地球和生命过程

水在塑造我们的星球和使生命成为可能方面发挥着关键作用。鉴于地球表面及其内部的水丰富，涉及水的化学反应，即水合和脱水反应，在自然界中占有突出地位，并且对于使我们的星球独一无二的复杂的地球化学和生化反应至关重要。本文重点介绍了固体地球、生物学和人造材料中水合和脱水反应的一些基本方面，以及它们与我们星球上碳循环的联系。