Ice-9

good morning, herr doktor.
ah, there you are, my boy. just in time to stand in for your erstwhile counterpart.
murray? is he still working here?
well, he was. you can find him over there.
where? here? there's only a circle of ice on the floor.
not ice. ice-9. the murray version of ice-9, to be exact. he accidentally came in contact with it while holding that metal prong.
what happened to him?
well, as you know, ice-9 is a polymorph of water which melts at the elevated temperature of 45.8 °C, or 114.4 °F. When it comes in contact with liquid water below that temperature, it becomes supercooled.
so?
it acts as a seed crystal and causes the solidification of the entire body of water, which instantly crystallizes as more ice-9.
but what about murray?
well, like everyone else, he was mostly water.
so. . . . ?
so, naturally, he crystalized when he touched it, and that's what's left of him.
my god!
he was about to make me some coffee. but now you're here, so. . . you don't mind, do you?
um, I guess not.
with cream and sugar, thanks.