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Scientists Witness Water Transforming Into a Weird 'Glass' Instead of Ice : ScienceAlert

It covers about 70 percent of Earth's surface and comprises roughly 60 percent of our bodies by mass, yet water remains scientifically anomalous. Like an aqueous Jekyll and Hyde, water crystallizes at low temperatures, taking the familiar form of ice. Or it can become "glassy water", with an amorphous, messy molecular structure. This weird form of water is found in stratospheric clouds in polar climes.