Ice-nine
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Ice-nine is a fictional material that appears in Kurt Vonnegut's 1963 novel Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine is described as a polymorph of ice which instead of melting at 0°C melts at 45.8°C. When ice-nine com
The fictional ice-nine is depicted as being capable of causing any liquid water to permanently freeze unless heated far above room temperature.
Irving Langmuir
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Irving Langmuir was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
Langmuir in an undated photo
Langmuir c. 1900
Langmuir (center) in 1922 in his lab at GE, showing radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi (right) a new 20 kW triode tube
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