scientist for decades with absolutely no concrete answers. Read this article
to find out more than one explanation for an answer and why water, the very
reason for life on earth, behaves weird at different environments
From the article:
The explanation once commonly dispensed in textbooks
turns out to be wrong. And slipperiness is just one of the unanswered puzzles
about ice. Besides the everyday ice that you slip on, there are about a dozen
other forms, some of which experts suspect exist in the hot interior of Earth or
on the surface of Pluto. Scientists expect to discover still more variations in
the coming years.
Ice, said Robert M. Rosenberg, an emeritus professor
of chemistry at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., and a visiting scholar at
Northwestern University, "is a very mysterious
solid."
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