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‘Plastic ice’: Scientists create bizarre cosmic ice that may shape alien oceans
We all know water as ice, liquid, and steam. But prepare to be surprised – there are other, far more exotic forms out there.
A strange type of ice thought to dwell deep in the oceans of alien planets has finally been proven to exist. For the first time, researchers have directly observed a sort of hybrid phase of water ...
Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the lab, known as “plastic ice VII.” This strange version could exist naturally ...
The experiments revealing plastic ice VII were performed using the time-of-flight spectrometers IN5 and IN6-SHARP at the ILL. Temperatures as high as 450—600 K and pressures from 0.1 to 6 GPa (up to ...
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