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| Mar 20, 2023 at 10:33 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @Rhymehouse: You should edit your question to make that clear. Its current phrasing left us guessing whether the layer of ice was formed directly by the magic, or if it was a symptom of the target itself being super-cooled (either surface layer or all the way through.) As you can see from multiple answers, it wasn't clear to anybody, and still isn't without finding this comment under one of the answers. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 10:27 | comment | added | AI0867 | I'm missing scenario #3: The surface of the target is rapidly cooled to 1K, causing the atmosphere to condense and freeze onto it. The ice that is formed then 'shields' the target from the ray, causing the ice to rapidly grow outwards, without drawing all that much heat out of the target. This also means that the ice only contains a little water-ice, and is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 19:19 | comment | added | Rhymehouse | I am talking about scenario #2, where the target is covered in thick ice on contact. As for how much ice or the cone of the beam, I'm not a chemistry major so I just left leeway with that. I don't want to give out numbers that seem silly on inspection. | |
| Mar 18, 2023 at 11:03 | history | edited | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 18, 2023 at 10:32 | history | answered | LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |