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Ambrosia - Nice, Nice, Very Nice
Posted on 05/26/2020 3:15:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An international team of researchers from University College Dublin (UCD) and University of Saskatchewan, Canada, have observed 'proton-hopping' movement in a high-pressure form of ice (Ice VII lattices).
Ordinary water ice is known as Ice I, while Ice VII is a cubic crystalline form of ice which can be formed from liquid water above 3 GPa (30,000 atmospheres) by lowering its temperature to room temperature, or by decompressing heavy water (D2O) Ice VI below 95 K.
Ice VII has a simple structure of two inter-penetrating, and effectively independent, cubic-ice sub-lattices, and is stable across a wide-ranging region above 2 GPa. Given Ice VII's simple structure and stability its importance as a potential candidate for a superionic (SI)-ice phase, in which Oxygen atoms remain crystallographically ordered while protons become fully diffusive as a result of intramolecular dissociation, has been hypothesised for some time.
"Our new fundamental discovery involves the application of electric fields, which induce proton separation from their constituent parent water molecules, and Grotthuss-type 'proton hopscotching' from one water molecule to the next, displacing the proton on the next chain in a game akin to musical chairs, thereby establishing an electric current or a flow of charge."
"This has important implications for hypothesised Ice VII in various planetary and exo-planetary bodies, featuring permanent or transient electric fields, such as the environs of Venus and moons of Jupiter such as (water-rich) Europa, and, especially, Ganymede."
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Room temp quantum computing?
Whhaattt…… did I just read?
US Space Force now working on the Proton Blaster Gun as we speaketh.
Nice, nice, very nice — So many different people. In the same device.
Ice VII is just a step or two away from Ice Nine.
Ice I is find, so is Ice VI.
I'm more worried about Ice IX.
XLNT obs,
hope we don’t get there !
One thing I learned during my 25-year career dealing with protons, those danged youngsters always find ways to have fun...
For more than a half-century, theory on the structure of liquid water has included the term “flickering clusters” for ever-changing domains on hydrogen-bonded collections of water molecules, which undoubtedly includes proton jumps from one location to another.
That something related should happen in the more-rigidly structured systems of solid water is kind of neat, but probably not all that surprising.
Ice, ice, very ice...
"This has important implications for hypothesised Ice VII in various planetary and exo-planetary bodies...
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Ice, Ice, Baby (Postmodern Jukebox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anx5IctHVGU
Venus Flytrap will have to revise parts of his atomic structure lecture.
LOL
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