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Science 10 November 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4061, pp. 613 - 614
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4061.613
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Superheated Ice: True Compression Fractures and Fast Internal Melting

Charles A. Knight 1 and Nancy C. Knight 1

1 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80302

Internal melt figures can be nucleated in ice without the presence of a vapor bubble. Their form and growth are fracture-like, different from the normal Tyndall stars, which do contain vapor bubbles. Normal Tyndall figures that grow rapidly are not oriented in the basal plane, and very rapid internal melting gives a peculiar, systematic growth of clouds of Tyndall figures.


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