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mwigdahl 6 hours ago [-]
I was surprised to see no reference to ice-9 from Kurt Vonnegut's _Cat's Cradle_...
Matterless 6 hours ago [-]
Right?! Anyway for anyone who hasn't read it, go pick up a copy. Cat's Cradle is not too long, and it's funny and engaging and altogether worthwhile. And you'll always think of ice/9 when you see an article like this one.
gilleain 5 hours ago [-]
Well, the image titled 'The Shapes of Water' has 4 examples - 'Ice Ih', 'Ice VIII', 'Ice XV', and ... 'Ice IX' :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice#Known_phases - in this table, apparently discovered in 1968
Imagine we do all this worrying about nukes and climate change and germ warfare and we end up accidentally solidifying room temperature water.