Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions into a phase completely unfamiliar under natural conditions on Earth.
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in reply to diana 🏳️⚧️🦋 • •Kismet--the fact that today's "Star Date" radio program featured another peculiarity of Neptune, one it shares with Jupiter, and that's the pseudoasteroid bodies called "centaurs"--part comet-like, part asteroid-like. Nice timing, that.
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in reply to diana 🏳️⚧️🦋 • • •Probably "not completely unfamiliar" - when I was a student at UCLA there was a small group (four) of us who worked for a Nobel chemist (Willard Libby). My project was high energy chemical gas lasers, but two of the group were doing chemistry of ice under extremely high pressures. They had to use high explosives (C3 at the time, if I remember correctly) packed in holes drilled into the Mojave. (Between my lasers and the high pressure ice chemistry our group of four set off an awful lot of explosions - but mine were unanticipated and undesired as they would destroy my laser array and I had to spend weeks rebuilding it.)
Fortunately no one created Ice Nine.
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