Bizarre Form of Water Ice Solves a Magnetic Mystery on Neptune and Uranus 

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a great sci fi story (Cat's Cradle) about a form of ice he called Ice Nine. It was solid at room temp... but it had a very deadly property. Any liquid water which touched ice nine particles would also freeze into ice nine (at room temperature). The story details the outcome.

Water also has a gel phase at standard temperature and pressure. This turns out to be very interesting in biological systems, changing ion solvency - particularly at interfacial surfaces of proteins (see works of GH Pollack and Gilbert Ling).

"water can be magnetized depending on its structure" Well I be damned.

Bernard G. Vonnegut, Kurt’s brother, under contract to the DoD, worked to discover other isomers of H2O, it was their hope to pitch it into water, solidify, and cross. His research was at GE, he got his brother a gig there as a PR flack. Two novels, Cat’s Cradle and Player Piano directly from his GE experience.

Petrov is one in a million. If he did not make videos, we would stay stupid. Thanks for explaining it in a way that includes strange computer generated image zoom ins, where ice 18 shows purple silk, and some twisting swirl, which I'm sure applies, but just piles on to the fact that there is more to learn.

In "The Brothers Vonnegut", I learned Kurt Vonnegut's older brother worked with other forms of ice, to solve plane crashes caused by icing. This work became the basis for Kurt's apocalyptic novel, "Cat's Cradle" in which Ice-9 destroys life on Earth.

Everyone else is talking about Vonnegut, but I came here for the chill puns.

Ice Nine is real? Holy fuck ...

At age 74 I've outlived my appreciation for the many unique forms of a blizzard.

I can honestly say that is the weirdest fact I now know ... Ice 19 is water that's metal..... thx Anton have a great weekend!

All new to me as an old Australian of 75, Anton! I've signed up and looking forward to more fascinating science videos of yours. Cheers, Geoff. ❤️

About a decade ago during a heavy fog with temps around 4°F I observed rectilinear frost crystals which were like postage stamps but 1/4 the size that were attached to sage stalks along one edge.

Dr. Emoto did research study on frequency, and the correlating geometric snowflake-style, of water. Also Hans Jenny did frequency experiments, with sand on a metal plate, that would make different shapes, for the varying frequencies.

63 and still chuckle when I hear "what's going on inside Uranus".

Applause to Anton for consistently publishing videos with interesting scientific information and discoveries.

Kurt Vonnegut - "Cat's Cradle"

Kurt Vonnegut wrote a novel (Cat's Cradle) with ice-nine, a fictional ice with a higher freezing temperature.

One of my buddies and I used to amuse ourselves by freezing ice cubes in liquid nitrogen. When placed in a container of liquid nitrogen (something in the neighborhood of 379 degrees below zero F), ice cubes shrank down into solid little crystals like diamonds. But they didn't melt and turned back into liquid water, they vaporized and completely disappeared.

What a "cool" subject! 😊 Humor for the day! Anton always makes me smile!

Metallic water … OK, but crystalline water and amorphous ice blew my mind.

It's Ice Jim! but it's not as we know it is.

🎉 should talk about the formation of ice crystals and their positive or negative charge including the seed

It is impressive how wonderful water is, not only is the base chemistry set for all living things, but also has so many forms, I wonder how many different form of life use those forms and how....

Water is the strangest thing.

Different water implies that water may not need to be present but in the right form for life to develop as we understand it.

Anton, that was actually a funny play on words!😂 Totally caught me off guard. 👍👍

Honestly, Ice-18 and Ice-19 might prove more important for studying superconductors (or extending outwards from superconductors) than anything else.

6:45 it snowed on that Mars Polar Probe. looked like snow too.

Thanks Anton. Yet more fascinating discoveries that, without your channel, I'd have no knowledge of. Great stuff. 👍👍👍👍👍

Ice 9!!

Thank you for your videos Anton. You always do a great job of explaining things

This channel remains my favorite and most rewarding find on YT. Thank you Anton! Hard science is good for the mind!

Thank you for sharing

6:04 Lab grown diamonds are as real as diamonds mined from the earth. Lab grown diamonds are identical to earth mined diamonds in every way, except that they are grown in a lab. They have the same chemical, physical, and optical properties as mined diamonds and exhibit the same fire, scintillation, and sparkle.

Tour videos are always so incredible! I don't know anyone who shares so much about so many different and complex topics.

The graph is so weird. with increasing pressure the freezing point remains constant, then gradually decreases, then rapidly increases. Also I wonder can any liquids exist in a vacuum?

The various types of water is ongoing and amazing in the amounts of things we don't know about it yet. It's truly an incredible part of life on earth and other. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love

Water is actually a super strange thing. We're just used to it as it is everywhere. A fact that it is liquid is bizarre. And that ice has lower densitiy and floats on top of it, wtf. I would like to see more content just about weird properties of water, either from you or from somewhere else. Thanks.

You make me feel like i'm in an old soviet space movie being debriefed on space stuff.

This was fascinating. One of your best, and that’s a pretty high standard. I knew there were many water ices, but almost nothing beyond that bare fact. Terrific.

seems like Eskimos were onto something with their many words for ice and snow

Thank you Anton , great topic

I always watch till the very end of the videos, hoping for a good little bit that'll make me smile. Cheers!! Lol😂 much appreciation for all your work in making the daily videos! Your a wonderful person too!

Thank you for such wonderful new knowledge. The universe is full of surprises!

Sounds like Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-9 is right around the corner

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙃😎👍

Very interesting. Thanks AP.

Thank you for all the wonderful content, you give us a lots to think about.

Super fascinating episode!

Love you wonderful person, thank you for your guidance and education 😊

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.

Damn that is so cool 🥹I've been curious for years as to why Neptune + Uranus have such insane magnetic fields, so this discovery bringing us just a bit closer to understanding is so exciting!!

Always appreciated Thank you

Stunning. Thanks, Anton.

Very interesting. You explained all this very well. Thank you.

thank you for this informative clip of the many crystalline structures of water, very interesting

Another great educational video Anton! You’re genuinely one of the greatest creators who entertain and teach people about the various sciences and discoveries that make our world an ever growing and evolving place! You should have over five million subscribers by now though.. I always recommend your videos and channel to everyone I know that likes to learn about science and other STEM fields in a way that doesn’t feel like a lecture! Keep up the amazing work

So this is why Uranus has such magnetic attractivity!

Great work Anton!

Minds truly blown! I so love science 🫂

Keep up the good work!

Thanks Anton, another dose of Brain food & what a great start to the weekend, have a wonderful weekend and we'll all keep Waving. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤❤.

Amorphous ice is quite desired in cyoconservstion of cells and tissues. You need fast cooling or better, on earth, addition of substances helping formation of stable glass form of ice. Keep it below Mknus 80 C, and it will stay glassy. But at - 30, 40, it starts to crystallize.

Your videos are always so interesting.

I’m glad to see this video. I have been pushing this for nearly a decade. The funny part is I have been ridiculed for suggesting superionic water is at the cores of planets and moons. I believe even the earth has a superionic core stabilized by the overly large moon. Even the sun and stars cores have a superionic core. As white dwarfs prove this because of their crystalline oxygen structure. You see stars have a superionic core and a hydrogen shell. This is because all planetoids and stars originally began as globes of water. As pressure and gravity compresses the core, it transforms the water into superionic water. Throwing off the electrons, the oxygen bounds together and the hydrogen, being able to flow freely, migrates to lower pressure. Which is moving outside the core forming a shell of hydrogen. In planets the boundary of the core reacts with the hydrogen forming other elements from shockwaves and other disturbances. While stars radiate out the hydrogen in the solar wind. As the hydrogen is expelled the pressure which contains the core loosens the pressure. Until the hydrogen mantle can no longer contain the superionic core. This will cause the core to expanded and in some cases react with the hydrogen creating a blast that can destroy the star or expel the shell of hydrogen. This reaction reforms water as a nebula. Leaving behind a crystalline oxygen white dwarf, a neutron star and with larger masses, a black hole. Funny thing is superionic ice is identified as being black or glowing yellow. Which would explain many things about stars and their formations. One side note is masses smaller than stars (planetoids) have the same structure as stars but the core reacts more often with the shell of hydrogen forming other elements through gravity waves and shock waves. Forming silicon, sulfur, magnesium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and other elements. Silicon and sulfur will consist over 90% of the new elements. These elements are necessary for plant nutrition. One of the most abundant byproduct of these fusions will be helium. First as a alpha particle until they capture electrons. When water transform to superionic water, they loose their electrons which gives off light. This allows ionic atoms to easily bind with other ionic atoms forming new elements and then capture electrons. I also believe these cores have no other elements present. Such as silicon or metals. The nature of superionic water doesn’t allow it to. Planets expels these new element particles near the equator as hotspots. Like cyclones, volcanoes and even as mud volcanoes. Forming a shell around the dense core. This is determined by the mass of the planetoids. Get this. The formation of galaxies is the same bases. As a quasar. Only more violent. Giving off the deadly gamma radiation. The destroyer. Gamma rays will sanitize the galaxy of all life. Then the quasar will calm down pushing the water out to form the spiral arms. These arms will coalesce to form planets and stars. While the core of the quasar may leave behind a condensed mass of crystalline oxygen as a black hole. Just my thoughts.

sorry. i couldn't resist. lol. ice-o-topes. lol.

This was a n-ice video. Very chill. Watched it while having a cold brew. Really solidified what I knew about water. I'll stay frosty for more, though, gotta keep cool.

Thank you Anton

Thanks Anton, another informative and interesting video

Good, informative, episode.

Shalom, Am surprised didn't mention Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," and the infamous ICE-9 that freezes water at room temperature.

One of my favorite things about this infinite creation is that, there will never cease to be new discoveries. 😎 Thank you Universal Father for this Grand and Infinite creation.

Very interesting Anton. Here in New England and probably in Canada, we often see an allotropic form of ice. When huge piles of snow melt there is a kind of ice created by the pressure of the packed snow pile. If I remember my 1960s Earth Science correctly, it was called firn, but now firn is glacial pre-crystallized ice. It doesn't seem to melt but to evaporate [or is the term evanesce].

You guys are insane! This is crazy to think about much less discover. This is unlocking the rest of the elements on the periodic table. ❤gj

So strange to imagine these bizarre forms of water. When looking at all the factors that have to come perfectly together to form our world the Earth, it's unlikely that there are big numbers of Earth like planets full of advanced life in the universe. The universe is larger than our brain can imagine, so maybe there are "Earths" out there, but I believe we are very rare. More basic life, is probably found all over.

Love the triple negatives. Looking forward to Ice20

No sorry needed bro I love your presentation.♥

Fascinating stuff.

Take that Joke to the ICU immediately. 15:05

Good bless you Anton

Always a very interesting experience.

This makes me think about our little bubble of life in a completely different way thank you.

Thanks!

"Icy" what you did at the end... hehe! Stay wonderful!

Thanks

Cue "Ice nine" by Joe Satriani

If water can be so different, so can life. Aside...I've seen some strange forms of water in heavy engineering.

Hello Anton, if you look up and listen to the story of Mel's Hole, it mentions a strange form of water which may be just a fictional tale- but it is entertaining to think about. The only other form of water that I've heard of is EZ Water- that is talked about by Gerald Pollack in a playlist in the RU-vid channel Thunderbolts Project. This water is present at normal temperatures above freezing in every container. It is the purest form of water according to him. If EZ water could be tapped into and extracted any polluted source could be purified.

We like weird and unusual stuff. More please.

I'd love you to do an episode on the 4th phase of water.. or EZ water.. super fascinating..

This is incredible

Not just for water but possibly other compounds as well.

Vonnegut!

It seems like the pressure is overcoming the covalent bonds. As the pressure in a Neutron star overcomes the atomic structure. Interesting stuff.

Hello somewhat wonderful person! Lots of *somewhats* in this wonderful video.

I've always had a profound fascination with water. I believe that it somehow holds a key to the Universe.

♪ The cold never bothered me anyway... unless it's Ice XIX!

this solves the mystery of how refrigerator and freezer doors become mysteriously magnetized

My intuition tells me that Theia was an ice moon of Uranus in polar orbit, the resonance flung it "into" Uranus in a way that allowed most of it to swing past and into the inner solar system where it eventually slammed into Gaia to form our Earth and deposit massive volumes of superionic ice forming what we now call the LLSVPs, that ice is the secret of Earth's magnetic field lasting so long, it's a huge battery that charges on the solar wind.

I'm pretty sure science peaked with the invention of Ice Cream......