it's not ice or water, but if you know those heat packs, where you snap a metal disc, it creates a chain reaction, the water is that liquid, the "ice" is the heated result, it becomes a solid.
I'm not so sure that's right. I've seen that. The patterns on the top of the liquid indicate ice crystals. The 'solid' that you describe doesn't make those patterns.
What the hell...it's supercooled water. It's essentially purified water, usually by means of boiling, then frozen past the normal freezing point of water, in other words, it's colder than 32 F/0 C. When it gets about -4 C, any particle entering the water can make it freeze because the water crystallizes around the impurity. It can still happen at warmer temperatures below freezing (-4C<x<0C), but the crystalization happens slower and needs a bigger shock, such as a block of ice rather than some spit from a sneeze.
If you heat water up, add any salt until the solution is saturated, then cool it very carefully, you get a supersaturated solution, which just means that there is more salt dissolved in the water than it should be able to hold. If you touch a salt crystal to the supersaturated solution, it makes all the salt in the solution crystallize instantly.
your foe is pushed into a vat of the blue stuff. you have an ice cube. do you
a) help them out
b) tourture then with catching the icecube as its thrown into the Blue
C) toss it over your back as you walk out with a chilling one liner
d) dont care because they cant swim
a) help them out
b) tourture then with catching the icecube as its thrown into the Blue
C) toss it over your back as you walk out with a chilling one liner
d) dont care because they cant swim