[font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2"]Ice "hotter than boiling water"....okaaaaay. Let me be the first to say, my head hurts. [/font][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px; font-family: Verdana;"][font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="4"]Scientists Make Ice Hotter Than Boiling Water[/font][font style="font-family: Verdana;" face="arial" size="2"]
[p class="style1"]Scientists have turned water into ice in nanoseconds, which means really, really fast. That's not the most interesting part, though. The ice is hotter than boiling water.[/p] [p class="style1"]The experiment was done at the Sandia National Laboratories' huge [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);" href="vny!://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_041104.html"]Z machine[/a], which generates temperatures hotter than the [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" href="vny!://www.space.com/sun/"]sun[/a] (setting a [a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);" href="vny!://www.livescience.com/technology/060308_sandia_z.html"]record[/a] here on Earth) and where researchers test what we know about those plain vanilla "phases" in textbooks: solid, liquid and gas. [/p] [p class="style1"]"The three phases of water as we know them—cold ice, room temperature liquid, and hot vapor—are actually only a small part of water's repertory of states," said Sandia researcher Daniel Dolan. "Compressing water customarily heats it. But under extreme compression, it is easier for dense water to enter its solid phase [ice] than maintain the more energetic liquid phase [water]."[/p][/font][font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2"].....
[/font][font style="font-family: Verdana;" size="2"][font]Apparently, there are at least 11 other types of ice that most of us don't know about. They're classified by how they behave at certain temperatures and pressures. You might have heard of one: Supercooled water can be below 32 degrees but not frozen.[/font]
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