Sentences with phrase «superionic water ice»

This structure gives superionic water ice resistance to very high temperatures.

Hydrogen ions in superionic water ice can carry electrical charge, making it good at conducting electricity and generating magnetic fields.

Experimental evidence for superionic water ice using shock compression.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Unlike Earth, which has two magnetic poles (north and south), ice giants can have many local magnetic poles, which leading theories suggest may be due to superionic ice and ionic water in the mantle of these planets.

Scientists have proposed that heat emanating outward from the planet's core may pass through an inner layer of superionic ice, and through convection, create vortices on the outer layer of ionic water that give rise to local magnetic fields.

The fields might be generated if a layer of ionic fluid water swirled around an inner core of superionic ice.

«Because we pre-compressed the water, there is less shock - heating than if we shock - compressed ambient liquid water, allowing us to access much colder states at high pressure than in previous shock compression studies, so that we could reach the predicted stability domain of superionic ice,» Millot said.

«Our work provides experimental evidence for superionic ice and shows that these predictions were not due to artifacts in the simulations, but actually captured the extraordinary behavior of water at those conditions.

In a paper published today in Nature Physics, a research team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Rochester provides experimental evidence for superionic conduction in water ice at planetary interior conditions, verifying the 30 - year - old prediction.