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"One key trick: the use of tiny tubes of silica, in which the molecules of water were tightly confined so that they were unable to crystallize into ice. This tight confinement made it possible to maintain water in liquid form far below its normal freezing point."
Clever.
This is great. I did some undergrad work in phase-transitions, and they are full of surprises. I mainly worked on transitions in crystal latices, which are solid-solid transitions like graphite and diamond, but did some conductive-superconductive transition modeling too, which is another sort of transition altogether.
I have to wonder what other subtle transitions are out there that we miss. My prof was trying to work on transitions that take place in forest fires, but the sheer number of variables made it very difficult. I just spent some time on Lake Superior. Water is mystery.
thenewgreen · 4949 days ago · link ·
"the possible existence of a phase transition between two distinct phases of liquid water." -Cool experiment/video