[meteorite-list] Repost: PLANETS, PART THREE, Sort of, continued...
Sterling K. Webb
kelly at bhil.com
Wed Aug 3 05:44:32 EDT 2005
Hi, Everybody!
I said:
Water ice we think we know, but we don't. We only know Ice I, weak
pitiful stuff, quite ephemeral. Each Ice has radically different
properties from Ice I and from each other, different densities, melting
and boiling points, atomic structure. Each is a remarkable substance,
unlike anything ever seen on Earth.
For the mineral structures of Ice, see:
<http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PETROLGY/Ice%20Structure.HTM>
Petrologists ahould love this stuff... Neat diagrams.
And:
<http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PETROLGY/Ice%20Structure.HTM>
More complicated...
And, for a really complex view, see:
<http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html>
It shows the Ices up through Ice XII ! Imagine the internal dynamics
of a really big IceWorld! I can't, but I know there's a lot going on
there we don't understand.
Sterling K. Webb
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