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 as the bonds get stronger when you cool water, the ice expands. — 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
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