Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [August 5, 2022]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Different Forms of Ice in Glaciers
When ice forms at standard pressure, for example, it forms into that kind of hexagonal array. But if you look inside the snowflake, all the water molecules in that idealized model are arranged in a hexagonal grid. The same is true with sort of the most standard form of ice. And I think that's important to the structural glaciers, that there can be different forms of ice there. Now a question I don't know the answer to, people say sometimes that these some earthquakes are due to changes in rock in the earth going from one arrangement of molecules to another phase.
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