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Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’

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" The superionic ice could help explain the lopsided, off-center magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s seventh and eighth planets that are known as ice giants and were visited briefly by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. Instead of Earth’s magnetic field generated at the core of the planet, the fields of those icy bodies may originate, in part, within shells of superionic ice inside their mantles. "

cool!!

Re: Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’

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If the ice forms under high pressure would the crystalline structure remain intact under normal pressure?

possibly, the ice could form a high-pressure metastable phase

edit: don't forget to consider temperature as well as pressure when discussing stability

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