Well attestedNamed from the place
Nebraska Ice
noun · first attested 2010s
It is the rare ice that shrinks rather than expands when it freezes.
Informal name for two dimensional bilayer ice I, a flat phase of water ice that contracts as it freezes.
41.5000°N -100.0000°W · Q1553
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 2010s
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- noun
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Nebraska Ice
Xiao Cheng Zeng's group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln predicted the phase in 1997 from simulations of water squeezed into a gap less than a nanometer wide. Experimental work at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory confirmed it in 2009. The nickname comes from the university's own announcements, which played on how flat the stuff is.
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