What is ice nine?

Question

What is ice nine?

Answer 1

its a fictional compound that's supposed to turn all the water it touches into ice permanently. The ice wont melt.

Answer 2

Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle. It is supposed to be a more stable polymorph of water than common ice (Ice Ih) which instead of melting at 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit), melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8°C, it acts as a seed crystal, and causes the solidification (freezing) of the entire body of water which quickly crystallizes as ice-nine.

Vonnegut came across the idea while working at General Electric

Answer 3

It could mean either of these...

Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat's Cradle.

Ice-nine, a disaster scenario involving the runaway fusion of strangelets

Answer 4

Consult "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut.