{"id":90437,"date":"2019-05-08T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/black-hot-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:42:24","slug":"black-hot-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/black-hot-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water","title":{"rendered":"Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature\u2019s Most Common Form of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hot-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The findings, published today in Nature, confirm the existence of \u201csuperionic ice,\u201d a new phase of water with bizarre properties. Unlike the familiar ice found in your freezer or at the north pole, superionic ice is black and hot. A cube of it would weigh four times as much as a normal one. It was first theoretically predicted more than 30 years ago, and although it has never been seen until now, scientists think it might be among the most abundant forms of water in the universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new experiment confirms the existence of \u201csuperionic ice,\u201d a bizarre form of water that might comprise the bulk of giant icy planets throughout the universe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/black-hot-superionic-ice-may-be-natures-most-common-form-of-water-20190508\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings, published today in Nature, confirm the existence of \u201csuperionic ice,\u201d a new phase of water with bizarre properties. Unlike the familiar ice found in your freezer or at the north pole, superionic ice is black and hot. A cube of it would weigh four times as much as a normal one. It was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}