Water: ins and outs of ice nucleation

Sastry, Srikanth (2005) Water: ins and outs of ice nucleation Nature, 438 (7069). pp. 746-747. ISSN 0028-0836

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Abstract

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, Earth's waters freeze over on contact with ice-9, a fictional form of ice that is more stable than water. Vonnegut depicts an imaginary and extreme scenario of how the thermodynamics of water might dictate the fate of the planet.

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