Amazing Snowy Ice

More interesting, creative, amazing and beautiful snowy ice.



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Snowy Owl..

Snowy Owl at the Fairlane Green Mall in Allen Park, MI. Digiscoped..Owls are so amazing, very wise creatures...



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Wonderful snowy ice.... :o

Wonderful snowy ice in korea.....
See....How creative and smoothly
to make castle snowy ice.

Snowy ice!!!..Whats thats?

Ice is the name given to any one of the 14 known solid phases of water. However in non-scientific contexts, it usually describes ice Ih, which is the most abundant of these phases. It is a crystalline solid, which can appear transparent or an opaque bluish-white color depending on the presence of impurities such as air. The addition of other materials such as soil may further alter appearance. The most common phase transition to ice Ih occurs when liquid water is cooled below 0 °C (273.15 K, 32 °F) at standard atmospheric pressure. However, it can also deposit from a vapor with no intervening liquid phase such as in the formation of frost. Ice appears in varied forms such as hail, ice cubes, and glaciers. It plays an important role with many meteorological phenomena. The ice caps of the polar regions are of significance for the global climate and particularly the water cycle.

As a naturally occurring crystalline solid, ice is considered a mineral.

An unusual fact of ice frozen at a pressure of one atmosphere is that the solid is some 8% less dense than liquid water. Therefore, water is one of the few substances to expand when it freezes. Ice has a density of 0.917 g/cm³ at 0 °C, whereas water has a density of 0.9998 g/cm³ at the same temperature. Liquid water is most dense, essentially 1.00 g/cm³, at 4 °C and becomes less dense as the water molecules begin to form the hexagonal crystals of ice as the temperature drops to 0 °C. (In fact, the word "crystal" derives from Greek word for frost.) This is due to hydrogen bonds forming between the water molecules, which line up molecules less efficiently (in terms of volume) when water is frozen. The result of this is that ice floats on liquid water, an important factor in Earth's climate. Density of ice increases slightly with decreasing temperature (density of ice at −180 °C (93 K) is 0.9340 g/cm³).

When ice melts, it absorbs as much heat energy (the heat of fusion) as it would take to heat an equivalent mass of water by 80 °C, while its temperature remains a constant 0 °C.

It is also theoretically possible to superheat ice beyond its equilibrium melting point. Simulations of ultrafast laser pulses acting on ice shows it can be heated up to room temperature for an extremely short period (250 ps) without melting it. It is possible that the interior of an ice crystal has a melting point above 0 °C and that the normal melting at 0 °C is just a surface effect.

The smallest ice was created by Roger Miller and Klaus Nauta in the University of North Carolina in 1999. It is 6 water molecules arranged in a hexagon, theoretically the smallest ice possible.

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