Sentences with phrase «amorphous water ice»
Amorphous water ice islands (the dark areas in the photos) change shape and spread over the substrate like liquid, which is indicated by the blurring of the images.
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Islands of amorphous water ice were created on a substrate by irradiating crystalline ice with ultraviolet light at -263 C / -441 F.
These photos show UV - irradiated amorphous water ice observed by a transmission electron microscope as the temperature rose (25K / -248 C / -414 F, 70K / -203 C / -333 F, 96K / -177 C / -287 F, 120K / -153 C / -243 F).
Not exact matches
These findings help explain why water can be found in two very different solid forms that do not exhibit a crystalline structure, unlike ice in a freezer, called low - density and high - density amorphous ice.
At the extremely low surface temperatures on these objects, water ice takes a disordered, amorphous form instead of the regularly ordered crystals typical in warmer areas, such as snowflakes on Earth.
«Quaoar, a large body in the Kuiper Belt, has crystalline water ice on its surface, yet conditions there should favour amorphous ice.»