Show the animation Liquid Water to Solid Ice. Explain that in liquid water, the water molecules are attracted to each other so they are close together but can move past one another. As they cool to ...

Water molecules in this phase are predicted to remain locked in a crystalline structure but ... of plastic crystals. We were therefore able to identify plastic ice VII as an intermediate phase ...

And because of ice's innate crystal structure, it tends to break along straight lines. Dr. Jan Lieser: The icebergs that we usually see are weathered. They get beaten up by winds and waves and ...