Strange Form of Ice Found That Only Melts at Extremely Hot Temperatures

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Strange Form of Ice Found That Only Melts at Extremely Hot Temperatures
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within Earth's solid inner core, and hot, black, heavy ice – that's both solid and liquid at the same time – likely forms within the water-rich gas giants,Then just last year, researchers at several universities in the United States and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center laboratory in California discovered a new phase of superionic ice.

Successive shockwaves raised the pressure to 200 GPa and temperatures up to about 5,000 K – hotter than the temperatures of the 2019 experiments, but at lower pressures. X-ray diffraction then revealed the hot, dense ice's crystal structure, despite the pressure and temperature conditions only being maintained for a fraction of a second.

If more of a Neptune-like ice giant's insides were taken up by a mushy solid, and less of by a swirling liquid, then it wouldNeptune might contain, then the magnetic field generated by the outer liquid layer would interact with each of them differently, making things stranger still.

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