How does it taste?
I'd suggest going to Philly to taste the water ice, but from what I understand it was recently sacked.
I'm pretty sure Tom Brady was the one who got sacked, not Nick Foles.
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#12If the ice forms under high pressure would the crystalline structure remain intact under normal pressure?
TFA says they transported it “in carry-on luggage” after forming it to a different lab where they blasted it with the laser.
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#13If the ice forms under high pressure would the crystalline structure remain intact under normal pressure?
I too always assumed that once pressure was released that other forms of ice revert to more mundane forms. This changes my thinking quite a bit.
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#14Just saying that solid electrolytes ("superionic conductors" is just a synonym) have been around for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ion_conductor
There's the zirconia oxygen-sensitive electrode in your car's exhaust system, beta-alumina (used in various high-temperature batteries), the high-temperature modification of silver iodide, and others. Fascinating subject, some of these are almost as conductive as metals!
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#15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
My mind went immediately to Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle as well.
Yeah, in the hopes of this not being a candidate 'Great Filter' event I hope the scientists are dipping each ice form into a small cup of water before continuing on to the next stage.
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#16Re: Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’
#17If the ice forms under high pressure would the crystalline structure remain intact under normal pressure?
I too always assumed that once pressure was released that other forms of ice revert to more mundane forms. This changes my thinking quite a bit.
The article is a little unclear, but I think they're saying that it was compressed between pieces of diamond, then transported still pressurized within the diamond cell.
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#18https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
Busy busy busy
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#19" 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…
> cool!!
Was that a pun?
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#20"Newly discovered"? This is from the Nature Physics page for the original article [1]:
Received: 27 October 2015
Accepted: 01 November 2017
Published online: 05 February 2018
That has got to be the longest stretch between submission and acceptance I've ever seen for a single paper. I wonder how many rounds of review that took.