You're right; it ought to be "chromium VI". Everyone's going by the WSJ article's notation but I should probably change the headline.
"Ice-nine" was a clever play on physical chemists' similar use of Roman numerals to indicate different phases on a phase diagram. There actually is an ice IX but it doesn't have the properties Vonnegut said it did.
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Date: 2006-02-01 04:58 pm (UTC)"Ice-nine" was a clever play on physical chemists' similar use of Roman numerals to indicate different phases on a phase diagram. There actually is an ice IX but it doesn't have the properties Vonnegut said it did.