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- Ice-nine abstract "Ice-nine is a material appearing in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine is supposedly a polymorph of water (invented by Dr. Felix Hoenikker), more stable than common ice (Ice Ih); instead of melting at 0 °C (32 °F), it melts at 45.8 °C (114.4 °F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8 °C (thus effectively becoming supercooled), it acts as a seed crystal and causes the solidification of the entire body of water, which quickly crystallizes as more ice-nine. As people are mostly water, ice-nine kills nearly instantly when ingested or brought into contact with soft tissues exposed to the bloodstream, such as the eyes or tongue.In the story, it is developed by the Manhattan Project in order for the Marines to no longer need to deal with mud, but abandoned when it becomes clear that any quantity of it would have the power to destroy all life on earth. A global catastrophe involving freezing the world's oceans with ice-nine is used as a plot device in Vonnegut's novel.Vonnegut came across the idea while working at General Electric:The author Vonnegut credits the invention of ice-nine to Irving Langmuir, who pioneered the study of thin films and interfaces. While working in the public relations office at General Electric, Vonnegut came across a story of how Langmuir, who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work at General Electric, was charged with the responsibility of entertaining the author H. G. Wells, who was visiting the company in the early 1930s. Langmuir is said to have come up with an idea about a form of solid water that was stable at room temperature in the hopes that Wells might be inspired to write a story about it. Apparently, Wells was not inspired and neither he nor Langmuir ever published anything about it. After Langmuir and Wells had died, Vonnegut decided to use the idea in his book Cat's Cradle.↑ ↑".
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- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Category:Doomsday_scenarios.
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- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Category:Polymorphism_(materials_science).
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Category:Water_ice.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Cats_Cradle.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Creutzfeldt–Jakob_disease.
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- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Freezing.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink General_Electric.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Grey_goo.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink H._G._Wells.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink AIDS.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Ice_IX.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Ice_Ih.
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- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Irving_Langmuir.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Kurt_Vonnegut.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Kuru_(disease).
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink List_of_planet_killers.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Manhattan_Project.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Nobel_Prize.
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- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Polymorphism_(materials_science).
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Polywater.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Prion.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Ritonavir.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Scrapie.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Seed_crystal.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Sodium_acetate.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Standard_conditions_for_temperature_and_pressure.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Strangelet.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Supercooling.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Tiberium.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLink Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy.
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ice-nine".
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLinkText "ice-nine".
- Ice-nine wikiPageWikiLinkText "material of the same name".
- Ice-nine wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Kurt_Vonnegut.
- Ice-nine wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
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- Ice-nine subject Category:Doomsday_scenarios.
- Ice-nine subject Category:Fictional_materials.
- Ice-nine subject Category:Fictional_weapons.
- Ice-nine subject Category:Hypothetical_environmental_disasters.
- Ice-nine subject Category:Kurt_Vonnegut.
- Ice-nine subject Category:Polymorphism_(materials_science).
- Ice-nine subject Category:Water_ice.
- Ice-nine hypernym Material.
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- Ice-nine comment "Ice-nine is a material appearing in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine is supposedly a polymorph of water (invented by Dr. Felix Hoenikker), more stable than common ice (Ice Ih); instead of melting at 0 °C (32 °F), it melts at 45.8 °C (114.4 °F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8 °C (thus effectively becoming supercooled), it acts as a seed crystal and causes the solidification of the entire body of water, which quickly crystallizes as more ice-nine.".
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- Ice-nine sameAs Gelo-nove.
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- Ice-nine sameAs Лёд-девять_(вымышленный_материал).
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- Ice-nine wasDerivedFrom Ice-nine?oldid=705450401.
- Ice-nine isPrimaryTopicOf Ice-nine.