Scientists Create Ice Hotter Than Boiling Water

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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006773895

March 17, 2007 11:06 a.m. EST

Nidhi Sharma - All Headline News Staff Writer

Albuquerque, NM (AHN) - In one of the quickest scientific experiments, scientists have turned water into ice in nanoseconds, making the ice hotter than boiling water. The experiment was done at the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories.

The experiment was successfully carried out by huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun thus setting a record here on Earth. Sandia researcher Daniel Dolan said, "Compressing water customarily heats it. But under extreme compression, it is easier for dense water to enter its solid phase than maintain the more energetic liquid phase ."

During the experiment, the volume of water shrank abruptly and discontinuously but it was equivalent to the structure of almost every known form of ice except the ordinary kind.

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1. Sounds like Ice-IX

Which was discovered in 1968 at GE.

Fortunately, it's doesn't have the same properties as Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-9, which is still fictional (thank god).

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2. ' Under Pressure '

could we save the polar cap with science?