{"id":10387,"date":"2011-11-26T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10387"},"modified":"2011-11-26T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:00:02","slug":"arr-the-mysteries-of-the-briny-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10387","title":{"rendered":"Arr, the Mysteries of the Briny Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5862229\/this-unreal-slow+motion-ice-tornado-kills-everything-it-touches\">This Creeping Underwater Ice Tornado Kills Everything It Touches<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brinicles are columns of ice that form under very calm ocean conditions, when there&#8217;s a big differential between the water temperature (around -1.9C) and the air temperature about the sea ice (below -20C). The warmer sea flows up to the air, freezing into new ice. According to the BBC, &#8220;the salt in this newly formed ice is concentrated and pushed into the brine channels. And because it is very cold and salty, it is denser than the water beneath.&#8221; This makes it fall down into the water, creating an ice plume that grows into the brinicle.<\/p>\n<p>When it gets to the ground, it starts to expand, killing everything it touches. The whole process takes five to six hours, according to the team, which is surprisingly fast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Creeping Underwater Ice Tornado Kills Everything It Touches Brinicles are columns of ice that form under very calm ocean conditions, when there&#8217;s a big differential between the water temperature (around -1.9C) and the air temperature about the sea ice &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}