There are somewhere between 20 and 74,963 forms of ice because water can do all kinds of weird stuff when it freezes. So far, scientists have experimentally determined the crystal structures for 19 types of ice. Or maybe 20, depending on who you ask. In this video, we’re going to charge through as many as we can in 10 minutes or so.
Sources:
- Snowflake symmetry, hexagonal ice
- Cubic Ice in the atmosphere
- Overviews of many different structures of crystalline ice - Part 1
- Overviews of many different structures of crystalline ice - Part 2
- Ice VII in diamonds
- Sublattices of Ice VI and VII
- Extreme structure of Ice X
- 3D structures of Ice
- Water structure and science
- Crystal forms of ice
- Ice IV is metastable and disordered
- Amorphous ice
- Computational ice modeling
