Haumea is as bright as snow, with an albedo in the range of 0.6-0.8, consistent with crystalline ice.
The silver dinged and sang as the water within it shifted from liquid to crystalline ice in much less than a heartbeat.
In outer space, hexagonal crystalline ice (the predominant form found on Earth) is extremely rare.
Amorphous ice is more common; however, hexagonal crystalline ice can be formed via volcanic action.
Furthermore, bombardment by ultraviolet light and cosmic rays turns crystalline ice into amorphous ice, within about 10 million years.
With increasing temperature, water, for example, changes from crystalline ice to liquid water to steam.
In the hours before dawn, the craft tied up against the polymer sculpture that looked so much like crystalline ice.
Something spoke in his brain, like fragments of crystalline ice, allowing no dispute.
For a normal crystalline ice far below its melting point, there will be some relaxation of the atoms near the surface.
Well, for water to become ice, the molecules must line up in a regular array as they form crystalline ice.