Ice-nine is a fictional material that appears in Kurt Vonnegut's 1963 novel Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine is described as a polymorph of ice which instead of melting at 0 °C (32 °F), melts at 45.8 °C …

Apr 10, 2022 · What is “Ice-nine?” Within the novel, Ice-nine is a molecular material that teaches water to change its chemical structure and freeze into solid form, without any need for a …

Ice-nine is an alternative structure of water that is solid at room temperature and acts as a seed crystal upon contact with ordinary liquid water, causing that liquid water to instantly freeze and …

Ice-nine is a fictional solid polymorph of water from Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine may also refer to: Ice IX, a form of solid water stable at temperatures below 140 K; Ice Nine, a …

Jan 4, 2021 · In Cat’s Cradle, life on Earth is destroyed when a substance called ice-nine falls into the ocean. Vonnegut’s ice-nine is a form of water that remains solid at room temperature; it …

Ice-nine is a form of water with a melting point of 114.4 F. At room temperature and pressure, it exists as a blue-white solid. It was first produced in secret at the Research Laboratory of the …

Ice-nine was a special type of ice that would freeze at higher temperatures than normal ice. When dropped into other bodies of water, it froze that, too, which resulted in all bodies of water on …

Jul 13, 2019 · Ice-nine was a form of water so stable that it never melted and would crystallize all water it touched. It was the Ebola of water… In Vonnegut’s book, physicist Felix Hoenikker …

Ice-Nine by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A crystalline form of water so stable that in practical terms it would never melt. (Text quote, book citation included.)

Apr 13, 2007 · Kurt Vonnegut, who died April 11, was a chemistry major who indirectly got the idea for the Ice-Nine in the novel Cat's Cradle from a Nobel Laureate. And a look at the …