Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C

18 pointsposted 21 hours ago
by jnord

7 Comments

vitiral

20 hours ago

> under preposterous pressures up to 2.3 million atmospheres, and tremendous temperatures up to 2,630 kelvins (2,357 degrees Celsius, or 4,274 degrees Fahrenheit).

Whew, so not Ice-nine

ChrisMarshallNY

20 hours ago

> Whew, so not Ice-nine

Ice 8.9?

I don't see what the problem i****

For those that don't know, this is Ice Nine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine

It actually scared me more than Stephen King's stuff, back then.

breakyerself

20 hours ago

There's an AIDs drug that no longer exists because of an isomorph of the drug compound that formed and spread making it so the original compound couldn't be made anymore.