Phasewater was an exotic material with remarkably special and powerful properties.
It was also versatile and malleable. When researchers combined phasewater with other exotics, they created experimental products that often came with strange and abnormal properties.
The vast majority of these combinations ended up in disappointment. The phasewater either didn't do anything important or reacted violently when coming into contact with incompatible materials.
Either way, getting phasewater to combine with other materials and get an amazing result out of it was difficult!
Just throwing random materials together with phasewater was not enough. The researchers needed to possess an extensive understanding of how phasewater behaved while also understanding the properties of other materials.
This was materials science on another level!
Fortunately, people like Ves who were interested in phasewater didn't have to reinvent the wheel.