Could there actually be hot ice?

Question

recently a new planet was discovered to be made of "hot ice"...is this actually possible? Could you walk or skate on it?

Answer 1

Yes if the pressure is very very very high. At high pressures, a gas can be compressed into a liquid and even a solid. This compression can take place at high temperatures. Indeed, the act of compression itself is exothermic.

Answer 2

Yes, it may be Possible!, not sure
An odd planet the size of Neptune, made mostly of hot, solid water, has been discovered orbiting a nearby star and offers evidence that other planets may be covered with oceans. Well!, you cannot walk or even skate, because it;s space..!!!:-))LOL!

Answer 3

No offense to anyone, but most of your answers seem to be from people who are not actually aware of what you are talking about.

Hydrogen gas can be compressed into a liquid or a solid if the pressure is great enough. So why not water (H20)? Anything should become a solid under great enough pressure, in theory.

Answer 4

I had read somewhere, that its a different form of solid water - and they had done it on earth in a lab, by heating ice so quickly it changed the molecular structure but was still solid.

My understanding is that you wouldn't be able to walk or skate on it, because its not 'ice' like we understand it, but a different kind of molecular solid.

Answer 5

I don't know about this one but if Deep Fried Ice Cream is possible them maybe this could be also. Try doing a search in Science Magazines or even the Wikipedia.

Answer 6

Solid water, as ice, may exist at very high temperatures, but it is necessary a tremendous pressure.

Answer 7

I'm guessing so. The product ICY HOT is truly so cold it burns. Frigiderm is a product used on my daughter's plantars warts and it was so cold it burned. So I would say yes because it already exists in other forms. The reason I would presume is that we (our skin/bodies) can only take so much cold after that it "stings" or "burns". I have never had frost bite but I am guessing that's what it feels like.

Answer 8

hmmmm i dont think so, but it depends what you think is a 'hot' temperature so there might be 'Hot ice' if you are realy bad at judging temps. i dont think it matters if you could walk or skate on it as you could do both on ice anyway.

Answer 9

Hot Ice is usually referred to Dry Ice, and Dry Ice is usually referred to Clouds. A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets, frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body, such as a moon. (Clouds can also occur as masses of material in interstellar space, where they are called interstellar clouds and nebulae.) The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.

On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths: they thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the cloud, hence the gray or even sometimes dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background, and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may be colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, clouds would appear darker because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorbs solar radiation at those wavelengths.

Answer 10

We saw that in a new discovered exoplanet,the temperature is high,bat also the pressure.