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    What scientists found trapped in a diamond: a type of ice not known on Earth

    by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Mar 09, 2018 3 minutes

    Trapped in the rigid structure of diamonds formed deep in the Earth's crust, scientists have discovered a form of water ice that was not previously known to occur naturally on our planet.

    The finding, published Thursday in Science, represents the first detection of naturally occurring ice-VII ever found on Earth. And as sometimes happens in the scientific process, it was discovered entirely by accident.

    Ice-VII is about one and a half times as dense as the regular ice

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