The secret life of water at very low temperatures
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 09:20
in Physics & Chemistry
The secret life of water just got weirder. For years water has been known to exist in 15 phases - not just the merry threesome of solid, liquid and gas from grade school science. Now, University of Utah chemists have confirmed the coexistence of ice and liquid after water crystallises at very low temperatures. They describe their work in the June 21 issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP)...