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Plastic ice VII: Exotic substance likely found in space created in the lab
Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...
Synthetic diamond with hexagonal lattice outshines the natural kind with unprecedented hardness
A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a ...
Scientists engineer ultra-hard synthetic diamond from graphite
Most natural and synthetic diamonds feature a cubic lattice structure but there are rare exceptions. Lonsdaleite, for example ...
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‘Plastic ice’: Scientists create bizarre cosmic ice that may shape alien oceans
For the first time, scientists have observed one of these exotic phases: Plastic Ice VII. “Plastic phases are hybrid states ...
Scientists create new ‘super diamond’ in major breakthrough
Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness than real ones, an advance that could ...
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A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally been observed
High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.
The first experimental observation of an exotic phase of water: Plastic ice VII
In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...
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Neutron Discoveries Unveiled at ILL
In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states – solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact many more phases, some of ...