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"textContent": "Ice-9, in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, is a fictional polymorph of water that stays solid at room temperature and converts every drop it touches into more of itself. Real ice doesn't work that way, but the underlying idea — that water takes radically different crystalline forms — is legitimate science. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Scientists found ice with a 304-molecule repeating pattern appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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