{"id":14516,"date":"2018-03-02T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14516"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:31:26","slug":"i-cant-say-that-sounds-chilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/02\/i-cant-say-that-sounds-chilly\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can’t Say That Sounds Chilly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose my physicist readers – if any – will not be surprised by this, but this is the sort of thing that boggles me. From<\/a> NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (17 February 2018):<\/p>\n

It is called superionic ice. It only occurs at temperatures matching those on the sun\u2019s surface, and pressures exceeding a million Earth atmospheres \u2013 the environment predicted at the centre of ice giants. In this hot ice, the oxygen ions of the water molecules behave like a solid, staying in place to form a lattice, while the hydrogen ions flow through it like a fluid.<\/p>\n

This structure gives superionic water ice resistance to very high temperatures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the academic paper’s abstract:<\/p>\n

Using time-resolved optical pyrometry and laser velocimetry measurements as well as supporting density functional theory\u2013molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) simulations, we document the shock equation of state of H2<\/sub>O to unprecedented extreme conditions and unravel thermodynamic signatures showing that ice melts near 5,000\u2009K at 190\u2009GPa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5000\u00b0 K appears to be around 8540\u00b0 F. It’s just so interesting and surprising how the properties of matter change with pressure from surrounding matter.<\/p>\n

The real question is whether or not some sort of specific, tangible benefit will come from this research.<\/p>\n

And here’s an ice giant that may have this stuff at its core:<\/p>\n

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Neptune!
Image credit: NASA\/JPL <\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose my physicist readers – if any – will not be surprised by this, but this is the sort of thing that boggles me. From NewScientist (17 February 2018): It is called superionic ice. It only occurs at temperatures matching those on the sun\u2019s surface, and pressures exceeding a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14517,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions\/14517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}