Water Clusters Revisited (Quix? Anyone?)

Factual Questions
1

At Thanksgiving dinner, the subject of Penta-Water came up again (see this thread to hear about Penta-Water, which is a substance claiming to solve the problem of water which, because of its monster sized water clusters, is not easily absorbed by cells in the body), and I said, drink it if you like, but there ain’t no such thing as “water-clusters”. My father-in-law has since sent me a link to a site which argues for 14 water molocule tetrahedral units, joining together to form “280-molecule icosahedrons” which “contain a variety of substructures with each water molecule being involved in four hydrogen bonds”.

My GQs for the chemically inclined:

  1. Are there water clusters that are in existence in normal water at body temperature (which, as far as I’m concerned, is the only relevant temperature for purposes of whether Penta-Water is a scam or not) which could somehow affect the body’s ability to absorb that water?

  2. If so, would any magic “Penta-Water” process have a lasting affect on those clusters?

2

If distinct clusters existed for more than a few milliseconds you’d see discrete resonance peaks for those hydrogen atoms in an NMR of water. You don’t . All you get is a smooth bumpy sort of thing. It’s difficult to believe that you could have a stable structure, e.g. pentawater, that that has no effect on the average environment seen by the hydrogen atoms involved in the structure. You’d need to have some sort of aperiodic structure to be consistent with the spectra. But if that’s happening why is there no evidence for the less complex dodecahedrons and such ?