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Home » Neutron Science News & Highlights
An ORNL-led team's observation of certain crystalline ice phases challenges accepted theories about super-cooled water and non-crystalline ice. Their findings, reported in the journal Nature, will also lead to better understanding of ice and its various phases found on other planets, moons and elsewhere in space. Credit: Jill Hemman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions ice, water theory
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