Malcolm Guthrie of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and colleagues found out that if you squeeze ice hard enough the protons in the ice would fall of. They looked at ice while it was compressed between diamond anvil cells which had the pressure of 55 gigapascals and under those conditions they saw that the protons drifted away. When they drifted away they filled in the spaces between the molecules. The stray protons might have something to do with the inner parts of icy plants such as Uranus and Neptune. It had been said before that the ice might go to a super ionic stage in which there are mobile hydrogen atoms that can support protein currents and can give of a magnetic field. Now with what the scientists have learned the manner of that could be different than what was thought and it could be at a lower temperature. Scientists used to think that the molecules in ice would go closer together under high pressure, but what really happens is that the hydrogen bonds equally to the oxygen and the molecule becomes divided. Guthrie says that they protons detach from the original cell under much less pressure and it just falls into the cavities in between the molecules. Protons can fall of ice. That's a weird thing because you normally would not think that hey could. I never knew they could. Could protons fall off of other things as well??? Maybe scientists can find out.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/06/magnetic-proton-soup-ice-gas-giant
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