Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least could be made on Earth with enough pressure. Nothing else does this. — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's game… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
The principal reason it transforms is that water is a collection of molecules, H2O, every child learns that.And that bond has the property that… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids,… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image