Sentences with phrase «called superionic»

Hints of the special phase, called superionic ice, appeared in water ice exposed to high pressures and temperatures, researchers report February 5 in Nature Physics.

Scientists created a new form of water — called superionic ice — that acts like a weird cross between a solid and a liquid, The New York Times reports.

Not exact matches

Unlike water or regular ice, in superionic ice the water molecules dissociate into charged atoms called ions, with the oxygen ions locked in a solid lattice, while the hydrogen ions move like the molecules in a liquid.

Published on Aug. 28 in Nature Communications, the research revealed an entirely new type of superionic ice that they call the P21 / c - SI phase, which occurs at pressures even higher than in the interior of giant ice planets of our solar system.