On 8/5/2016 11:31 AM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:08 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name <mailto:sustel@trimboli.name>> wrote:
Outside of everyday usage, English uses /ice/ to refer to any substance that is normally thought of as non-solid when it has been made solid. We use /ice/ instead of some other word because water is the most common substance that we regularly see become solid; we just apply that word to other substances.
English speakers use it, incorrectly, that way. It's a slang, albeit very common slang. You may use that slang, but some people try to avoid it.
Scientists use it this way. For example, ammonia ice <https://www.google.com/search?q=ammonia+ice&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS687US687&oq=ammonia+ice&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1952j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=%22ammonia+ice%22+site:nasa.gov>. Many dictionaries <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ice?r=75&src=ref&ch=dic> give both definitions.
When you have watched someone pick up a chunk of "dry ice" and try to eat it, thinking it's normal ice, you quickly learn not to use "ice" outside of the water kind.
/Dry ice/ is another example of using /ice/ to refer to something other than solid water. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name