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'Space ice' is less like water than previously thought (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The research team behind the latest paper, based both at UCL and the University of Cambridge, discovered medium-density amorphous ice in 2023. This ice was found to have the same density as liquid water (and would therefore neither sink nor float in water).

If something doesn't sink or float what does it do? The rest of this article I could somewhat follow, but this part makes no sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It would be considered neutrally buoyant so it would act kind of "weightless".

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