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Could This Cubic Ice Help Us Better Understand Cryo-Freezing
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Ice cubes are our most common way of shaping ice to cool our drinks, but in nature water forming into cubic ice is rare and possibly doesn’t even happen at all.
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ice cubes are a most common way of shaping ice to cool our drinks but in nature water forming into
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cubic ice is rare and thought to possibly not even happen at all science alert reports that
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while ice can freeze in a number of ways any discoveries of cubic ice in nature could actually
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be the freezing of other structural shapes that only end up looking cubic in the end but now
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researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say they have created cubic ice in a lab and
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despite sounding kind of silly it actually has wide reaching implications this is how
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ice generally forms in a multitude of outstretching hexagonal crystals but when the researchers
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froze water on 2d sheets of graphene the majority of the ice crystals froze in tiny cubic shapes
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what's more the cubic ice remained cubic throughout the experiment and didn't change phases during the
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consistent minus two hundred and seventy six degree fahrenheit conditions the researchers say this
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tells us what conditions the cubic ice is more likely to occur at specifically extremely cold
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ones but those are the same conditions that are present in our upper atmosphere which the
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researchers say is also important for understanding how things freeze at extremely dramatic temperatures
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something they say could be crucial in better understanding the process of cryopreservation
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and ice at a molecular level
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