Crazy! This scientist actually makes ice freeze in extreme heat
Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore Nation Laboratory (LNLL), California, United States managed to make ice with somewhat strange properties. When viewed, it looks like superionic ice, or at a high conductivity level.
Ice, which is known as ice XVII, can be created at hot temperatures and under great pressure. According to the report, temperatures hovered around 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2,760 degrees Celsius. While the pressure required is up to 4 million greater than Earth’s atmosphere.
This magical ice is said to be made in several forms. Because the hydrogen and oxygen atoms can provide a different arrangement. So that it can produce different configurations as well. The results of this research report have been published in the journal Nature some time ago.
These Scientists Make Ice in Extremely Hot Temperatures
In the study, the team from LNLL relied on laser beams to create shock waves to rapidly freeze large amounts of water. Previously they had also succeeded in making ice of this strange nature using computer simulations.
Upon further investigation, this ice is believed to also exist in outer space. Neptune, and Uranus are some of the planets that may contain the XVIII ice.
If there is indeed this discovery, it could completely change the definition of an ice planet before. But talking about this, we can only leave it to the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as a telescope that moves to search for planets belonging to NASA or the ESA telescope from the European space agency.