A Strange New Form of Ice Discovered by Scientists Could Revolutionize How We Think About Water A previously unidentifie…

A Strange New Form of Ice Discovered by Scientists Could Revolutionize How We Think About Water

A previously unidentified type of ice that is more similar to liquid water than any other ice yet has been discovered by scientists by shaking regular frozen water around in a jar of extremely cold steel balls.

This is amorphous ice, which does not exist in the environment on Earth. This is due to the fact that its atoms are not ordered in a tidy repeating crystalline structure, but rather are jumbled up into an atomic omnishambles.
But the amorphous ice that the team has been creating through tests with ball milling is unlike any amorphous ice that has ever been observed.

Typically, amorphous ice has a density between 0.94 grams per cubic centimeter and 1.13 grams per cubic centimeter. The new ice is quite close to water, which has a density of 1 gram per cubic centimeter, at 1.06 grams per cubic centimeter.