4 October 2006 — Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia National Laboratory researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the ...

The phase diagram shows the state of water (H2O) under very high pressure (X-axis) and temperature conditions (Y-axis). These conditions apply in the interior of the ice planets Uranus and Neptune ...

For a few millionths of a second after the big bang, quarks could move freely, but soon normal matter "froze out" of this quark-matter soup. For the first time scientists have compared quantum theory ...

Water, while one of the most abundant compounds on the planet and one of the most crucial compounds to life on earth, is one of the oddest. It exhibits physical characteristics that are completely ...

Water is weird. When ice cubes float at the top of a drink, they're defying the norm. Solids are generally denser than liquids, so they sink. But ...

Everything else has a phase diagram, too. Phase space solid -- a general, three-dimensional pressure-volume-temperature phase diagram For example, water is chemically interesting: the behavior of the ...

The experiments revealing plastic ice VII were performed using the time-of-flight spectrometers IN5 and IN6-SHARP at the ILL. Temperatures as high as 450—600 K and pressures from 0.1 to 6 GPa (up to ...

The recent back-to-back findings of low-density porous ice XVI and XVII have rekindled the century-old field of the solid-state physics and chemistry of water. Experimentally, both ice XVI and XVII ...

Researchers at KRISS observed water’s rapid freeze–melt cycles under ultrahigh pressure and discovered Ice XXI, the first new ...