A New Form of Ice
Feb. 3rd, 2023 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithScientists create a new form of ice with ball milling.
This is very interesting, but be careful with forms of ice that are not lighter than water.
This is very interesting, but be careful with forms of ice that are not lighter than water.
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Date: 2023-02-04 01:10 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-04 01:27 am (UTC)So, shaking ordinary ice and steel balls would be the equivalent of rubbing two sticks together...
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-04 04:33 am (UTC)I remembered that one of the main limitations of aquatic environments is that fire (and all it's required technology) won't work underwater. So, underwater heat-ice...
Plus depending on the exact properties, it could be used as a building or crafting material. Ice-spears, like those spiky cars from Fury Road, an armored construction that hovers steady in the water, heaters for crops...
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Date: 2023-02-04 01:53 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2023-02-04 02:22 am (UTC)Not all ideas are good ideas.
And scientists are often bad at realizing this before the shit has hit the fan. They're more the type to realize a decade or few later that the outcomes aren't what they expected or wanted.
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Date: 2023-02-04 04:53 am (UTC)Ooh, yes. So solid, without the crystalline bonds ... no triboluminescence from bonds breaking, which makes things VERY interesting. Could probably force continual luminescence under the right pressure.
Hmm ...
Date: 2023-02-04 05:01 am (UTC)