Occupation: Journalist Birth: March 9, 1949
Normally, you would not call ice a mineral..
People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember..
The principal reason it transforms is that water is a collection of molecules, H2O, every child learns that.And that bond has the property that as th….
Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to ….
The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed….
Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in different concentrations. For example,….
H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's ga….
There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our u….
I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about i….
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least could be….
I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typi….
Form follows finances instead of function..