{"id":2692,"date":"2023-02-05T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T05:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:12:36","slug":"medium-density-amorphous-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/medium-density-amorphous-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium-density Amorphous Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Medium-density amorphous ice:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers employed a process called ball milling to vigorously shake ordinary ice together with steel balls in a container cooled to minus-328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-200 degrees Celsius).<\/li>\n<li>This yielded what they called \u201cmedium-density amorphous ice,\u201d or MDA, which looked like a fine white powder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is amorphous ice?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Amorphous ice consists of <strong>water molecules arranged in a disordered state,<\/strong> with no large-scale regularity to their orientations or positions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This kind of ice is most often found in space.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists have identified 20 different forms of crystalline ice and three forms of amorphous ice \u2013 <strong>one low density<\/strong> (discovered in the 1930s), one <strong>high density<\/strong> (discovered in the 1980s), and the new one in between.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) How does high-density amorphous ice form?<\/h3>\n<p>The high-density amorphous ice forms by compressing ordinary ice at a temperature lower than \u2013150 \u02daC; under high pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/scientists-create-amorphous-ice-8423279\/lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>With frigid innovation, scientists make a new form of ice<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers employed a process called ball milling to vigorously shake ordinary ice together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}