New Form of Ice Discovered: Ice XXI

Oct 15, 2025 - 16:45
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New Form of Ice Discovered: Ice XXI
A small crystal of ice XXI formed through nucleation and slow melting process. Image credit: Lee et al., doi: 10.1038/s41563-025-02364-x.

Scientists have demonstrated that supercompressed water transforms into ice VI at room temperature through multiple freezing-melting pathways, which occur via a previously unknown form of metastable ice, named ice XXI.

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