In "Cat's Cradle" his Felix Hoenikker creates Ice-Nine, a substance that can freeze the world solid
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Cat's Cradle - Wikipedia  As the novel progresses, John learns of a substance called ice-nine, created by the late Hoenikker and now secretly in the possession of his children. Ice-nine is...
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Ice-nine - Wikipedia  For the metastable form of solid water, see Ice IX. For other uses, see Ice-nine (disambiguation). Ice-nine is a fictional material that appears in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine is ... A global catastrophe involving freezing the world's oceans with ice-nine is .... Create a book  Download as PDF  Printable version...
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Cat's Cradle Chapters 9-23 Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver  Cat's Cradle Summary and Analysis of Chapters 9-23 .... He does not realize that Felix Hoenikker actually did create ice-nine as his last gift to humanity and,...
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Cat's Cradle Summary - eNotes.com  eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Cat's Cradle. ... object: the sliver of ice-nine created by Dr. Felix Hoenikker and divided after his death by his three children, only to bring about the end of the world ... any crystal not scrupulously isolated could, in one single chain reaction, freeze solid all the oceans of...
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Cat's Cradle - Dictionary definition of Cat's Cradle | Encyclopedia ...  In Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut's fourth novel, the careless use of ice-nine, ... John will discover the members of his karass as the book progresses and the story is told. ... seed of some kind that would freeze the water in mud so that mud becomes solid. ..... Dr. Felix Hoenikker is one of the scientists who created the atomic bomb.
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Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry  The discovery of carbon atoms bound in the form of a ball is rewarded. New forms of the element carbon - called fullerenes - in which the atoms are ... They found high stability in C60, which suggested a molecular structure of great symmetry.
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Dry Ice is the Solid State of Carbon Dioxide by Ron Kurtus - Physics ...  Dec 1, 2005 ... Explanation of the characteristics of dry ice by Ron Kurtus - Physics ... If you put the gas in a compression chamber and increased the air...
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The Origins of Chemistry - The Mystery of Matter  One night in 1669, German alchemist Hennig Brandt, searching for a way to ... Small wonder this precious substance, a source of wealth and power for ... ratios, alchemists believed, they could turn base metals like lead into gold. ... The better way, Principe says, was to use the shortcut known as the Philosophers' Stone  if...
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Snowball Earth - Wikipedia  The Snowball Earth hypothesis proposes that Earth's surface became entirely or nearly entirely ... While Budyko's model showed that this ice-albedo stability could happen, he concluded that it had in fact never ... The term "snowball Earth" was coined by Joseph Kirschvink in a short paper published in 1992 within a lengthy...
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ice - definition and meaning - Wordnik  ice: Water frozen solid. ... Cake frosting; icing. n. ... Slang To ensure of victory, as in a game; clinch. transitive v. ... One or more diamonds. n. ... frozen in the solid state; n. a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes ... _ice players_, that nothing will deter them from venturing on those places which are marked as...
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Popsicle facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  The blocks were ground into crushed ice that was flavored with fruit and syrup. ... any spoon or stick), and the vendor recycled the goblet for the next customer. ... In 1905, Frank Epperson mixed powdered soda pop and water but forgot ... Frank pulled out the whole frozen mass and found that he had invented a new treat.
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Ice Palace: A Novel for Alaska Statehood  Ice Palace (1958) is her best-selling fictional account of Alaska's quest for statehood: it is alternately a fascinating travelogue, a popular history of Seward's folly,...
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The Earth-like Mars - Scientific American Blog Network  Aug 14, 2012 ... CC CC Created with Sketch. ... and in 1645 the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens produced the first ... In 1672 the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini ... The melting polar ice caps suggested also that there was liquid water ... Despite his first conservative descriptions of the surface of Mars,...
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M - Astronomy & Astrophysics Group  with a small telescope, and superficially appears like a solid structure ... In 1857 James Clerk Maxwell proved that Saturn's rings couldn't be solid; if they were ... He concluded that the rings were made of 'an indefinite number of unconnected particles'. (see later ... Astronomers long suspected that they were made of ice and.
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GameFAQs: Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition (SNES) FAQ by Alexander S  ... Yesugei, was poisoned by tartars -Genghis Khan\Temujin Hitler's World War II effort ...... world book defines it as "electrons or ions that are not moving" 01static...
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NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be ...  May 12, 2015 ... Sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its seafloor - an ... near vacuum and heavy radiation on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon. ... For more than a decade, scientists have wondered about the nature of the dark ... They then bombarded the salty samples with an electron beam to...
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Dry ice - Wikipedia  Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide (CO2), a molecule consisting of a single carbon atom bonded to two oxygen atoms.
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Left Hand Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | PenguinRandomHouse ...  In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and ... ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those ... The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter,...
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November 1, 2008  ... little birdie told us that in 1996 Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen of Denmark won the gold in this racket sport Badminton A branch of geology studies these ice masses,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...  And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. And through the drifts the...
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May - Musings on Michael Crichton: May 2009  May 26, 2009 ... In this Michael Crichton novel, a Scoop VII satellite returns to Earth .... A diamond hunt turns deadly when the expedition meets killer gorillas in...