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Here is the story of when I was a little kid. I looked in the ice and discovered a Hulk.

Here is the ice definition from Wiki:

Ice is water frozen into a solid state. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities such as soil particles or air inclusions. It occurs naturally throughout the Solar System from as close to the Sun as Mercury to the Oort Cloud and beyond as interstellar ice. Ice is abundant on Earth's surface, particularly in the polar regions as polar ice caps and above the snow line.[1] On Earth, ice is an important component of the global climate and plays an important role in the water cycle. Geologically, ice formations include glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice and icebergs. It is a common form of precipitation and deposition on Earth, falling as snowflakes and hail or occurring as frost, icicles or ice spikes. Ice is used for a wide range of applications including cooling, winter sports and the art of ice sculpting. The molecules in ice may have different geometries, or phases, depending on temperature and pressure. The hexagonal crystal form of ordinary ice is the most abundant on the Earth's surface and is denoted as ice Ih, (ice one h). The most common phase transition to ice Ih occurs when liquid water is cooled below 0C (273.15K, 32F) at standard atmospheric pressure. It can also deposit from vapour with no intervening liquid phase, such as in the formation of frost. The word is derived from Old English s, which in turn stems from Proto-Germanic isaz.

As a naturally-occurring crystalline inorganic solid with an ordered structure, ice is considered a mineral.[2] It possesses a regular crystalline structure based on the molecule of water, which consists of a single oxygen atom covalently bonded to two hydrogen atoms, or H-O-H. However, many of the physical properties of water and ice are controlled by the formation of hydrogen bonds between adjacent oxygen and hydrogen atoms; while it is a weak bond, it is nonetheless critical in controlling the structure of both water and ice. An unusual property of ice frozen at atmospheric pressure is that the solid is approximately 8.3% less dense than liquid water. The density of ice is 0.9167 g/cm3 at 0 C,[3] whereas water has a density of 0.9998 g/cm at the same temperature. Liquid water is densest, essentially 1.00 g/cm, at 4 C and becomes less dense as the water molecules begin to form the hexagonal crystals[4] of ice as the freezing point is reached. This is due to hydrogen bonding dominating the intermolecular forces, which results in a packing of molecules less compact in the solid. Density

of ice increases slightly with decreasing temperature and has a value of 0.9340 g/cm at 180 C (93 K).[5] The effect of expansion during freezing can be dramatic, and ice expansion is a basic cause of freeze-thaw weathering of rock in nature and damage to building foundations and roadways from frost heaving. It is also a common cause of the flooding of houses when water pipes burst due to the pressure of expanding water when it freezes. The result of this process is that ice (in its most common form) floats on liquid water, which is an important feature in Earth's biosphere. It has been argued that without this property natural bodies of water would freeze, in some cases permanently, from the bottom up,[6] resulting in a loss of bottom-dependent animal and plant life in fresh and sea water. Sufficiently thin ice sheets allow light to pass through while protecting the underside from short-term weather extremes such as wind chill. This creates a sheltered environment for bacterial and algal colonies. When sea water freezes, the ice is riddled with brine-filled channels which sustain sympagic organisms such as bacteria, algae, copepods and annelids, which in turn provide food for animals such as krill and specialised fish like the Bald notothen, fed upon in turn by larger animals such as Emperor penguins and Minke whales.[7] When ice melts, it absorbs as much energy as it would take to heat an equivalent mass of water by 80 C. During the melting process, the temperature remains constant at 0 C. While melting, any energy added breaks the hydrogen bonds between ice (water) molecules. Energy becomes available to increase the thermal energy (temperature) only after enough hydrogen bonds are broken that the ice can be considered liquid water. The amount of energy consumed in breaking hydrogen bonds in the transition from ice to water is known as the heat of fusion. As with water, ice absorbs light at the red end of the spectrum preferentially as the result of an overtone of an oxygen-hydrogen (O-H) bond stretch. Compared with water, this absorption is shifted toward slightly lower energies. Thus, ice appears blue, with a slightly greener tint than for liquid water. Since absorption is cumulative, the color effect intensifies with increasing thickness or if internal reflections cause the light to take a longer path through the ice.[8] Other colors can appear in the presence of light absorbing impurities, where the impurity is dictating the color rather than the ice itself. For instance, icebergs containing impurities (e.g., sediments, algae, air bubbles) can appear brown, grey or green.[8]

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