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tags: ice-nine, supercooled water, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, streaming video This is a fun little experiment with water that was supercooled to -21C (-6F). The supercooled water is poured into a bowl. It pours out as a liquid and turns to slush, forming ropelike peaks [1:07]. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Yey!!! months has passed... posting and link building... Finally my Blog's Celebrating its FIRST ANNIVERSARY (in posting...) weeeiii!!! Why in posting? just read on... I have mentioned before "Ice9web" was not the first name I gave to my blog I don't know if there is one link that existed named it to my original blog name? hmmm Thanks to all ExLinks that supported me all the way... and to my blog mates specially my friend who inspired me to blog Jehzeel Laurente's [JehzLau Concepts] The stor
First, let me explain about my domain name ice9web: I chose that name because it is really related to my full name "ice 9" and hobbies "web" let me itemize... Ice is my nick name I had it when I was 11y/o, a friend called me "ice" since he can't pronounce my true name "Isis" (came from Egyptian Goddess of Nature) 9 is the primary number of my full name which I will not mention here (^_^) sorry. web is the task that I often like to do during my vacant time i.e. website developing, weaving
This article is about the fictional material in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. For the nonfictional crystalline phase of ice, see Ice IX. For the hypothesized nonfictional runaway fusion of strangelets, see Strangelet.
Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8°C, it acts as a crystal "seed", and causes the solidification (freezing) of the entire body of water which quickly crystallizes as ice-nine.
Vonnegut came across the idea while working at General Electric:
Nonfiction
While multiple polymorphs of ice do exist (they can be created under pressure), none have the properties described in this book, and none are stable at normal earth-surface pressures and temperatures above the ordinary melting point of ice. The real Ice IX has none of the properties of Vonnegut's creation, and can exist only at extremely low temperatures and high pressures.
The ice-nine phenomenon has, in fact, occurred with a few other kinds of crystals, called "disappearing polymorphs". In these cases, a new variant of a crystal has been introduced into an environment, replacing many of the older form crystals with its own form. One example is the anti-AIDS medicine ritonavir, where the newer version destroyed the effectiveness of the drug.
In popular culture
"Ice-nine" has been used as a metaphor for highly infectious agents, or for anything that converts other things to more of itself. Such metaphors have included grey goo (hypothetical self-replicating nanotechnology), prions (the self-replicating protein structures responsible for mad cow disease), a runaway fusion reaction of negatively-charged strange matter, and a comparison to sodium acetate.
See also
Polywater
References
^ "Using Science Fiction To Teach Thermodynamics: Vonnegut, Ice-nine, and Global Warming" (2004). Journal of Chemical Education81: 509.
^ Morissette, Soukasene, Levinson, Cima, and Almarsson: "Elucidation of crystal form diversity of the HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir by high-throughput crystallization", pgs. 2180–2184. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, March 2003.
^ Wilczek, Frank. Letter, Scientific American, July 1999.
^ Gray, Theodore, Gray Matters, Icy Hot, The mysterious material inside hand warmers "freezes" almost instantly, Popular Science, October 2007.
Further reading
The chemistry of scrapie infection: implications of the 'ice 9' metaphor from Chem Biol. 1995 Jan
