New Ice Structure Could Help Seed Clouds, Cause Rain 100
ScienceDaily is reporting that a new ice chain structure may provide a better method for seeding clouds and causing rain. "Ice structures are usually built out of simple hexagonal arrangements of water molecules and this hexagonal building block motif is easily observed in the structures of snowflakes. However, during their studies Dr Angelos Michaelides and co-workers from the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, and the University of Liverpool have discovered a natural nanoscale ice structure formed of pentagons."
ice9 (Score:3, Informative)
A science fiction history about ice that is stable at room temperatura, so iceize the adjacent water. Causing the apocalipsys wen one piece of ice9 accidentally touch the sea.
Creepy if you have read Cat's Cradle (Score:2, Informative)
Ice Ice Baby (Score:3, Informative)
Yet another form of Ice to add the existing 16-odd arrangements [wikipedia.org].
Re:Ice 9? (Score:1, Informative)
Nice, nice, very nice
Science Daily...reporting? (Score:5, Informative)
I think to say that Science Daily does any reporting is stretching the definition of reporting a bit much. I think "rewritten from a press release" is more like it.
If you want a real news piece, with real reporting, check out the article on the same paper over at New Scientist [newscientist.com]. They actually talked with the scientist involved in the study (and one that wasn't).
Re:Pentagons?! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Global warming ... (Score:2, Informative)
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