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Can water be compressed into a solid?
Ben - We've had an email question from Jim Irvin and he wants to know if you can compress water into a solid. Now obviously you can turn water into a solid just by taking heat away, but can you just press it hard enough to make into a solid structure? Dave what do you think?Dave - The simple...
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For those who don´t want to read, it basically says that water can be compressed into solid.
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In which category of strength that would be? and what tiering this would be according to this wiki´s tiering system?if the ice forms in a different crystal structure that doesn't have a larger volume, which you can achieve with a pressure of about 2 Gigapascals - or about 20,000 atmospheres, which is the same pressure you get under 20 kilometres of ice or water - then you can produce ice at normal room temperature.