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Is Ice-Nine a Real Substance or Just a Fictional Creation?
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[QUOTE="hutchphd, post: 6502077, member: 635497"] I am huge fan of Vonnegut: we share a midwestern town and a pretty good college. I also recommend son Mark Vonnegut MD and his writings about going crazy. I see from Wikipedia that there are, in fact, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice']19 recognized phases[/URL] of water on the phase diagram. Kurt Vonnegut's brother was a chemist who worked extensively in efforts to seed clouds to produce rain, so he was not ignorant of this: I believe there likely were eight known phases in the early sixties hence the nine. The premise of ice nine is that a single seed crystal of this form of ice when dropped into the ocean precipitates formation of ice in a form stable at STP with obviously unpleasant consequences. The fact that this process had not occurred spontaneously over the most recent lifetime of liquid water on planet Earth puts some extreme conditions on the properties of ice nine: but I cannot produce a fundamental argument forbidding the possibility. An interesting question ?? [/QUOTE]
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