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  Re: Water ice found on the surface of comet 67P "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2016-03-04 22:31 +0000

#559379 — Re: Water ice found on the surface of comet 67P

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:30:11 +0000, Michael Moroney wrote:

> The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> 
>>Sam Wormley wrote:
>>> 
>>> Water ice found on the surface of comet 67P
> 
> 
>>Here on the Earth it's called "ice water". Pleas don't use stupid NASA
>>unclear minds on Usenet.
> 
> No, "water ice" is the correct term.  They use it to distinguish between
> ordinary ice made of water and frozen CO2, methane, nitrogen etc.  I
> don't really agree with, for example, calling what they found on Pluto
> "nitrogen ice" rather than simply frozen nitrogen, but that's what they
> do.

And "ice water" means liquid water that is just above freezing, where 
"water ice" means water below freezing.

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