Metastable ice VII at low temperature and ambient pressure

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Apr 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999natur.398..681k&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 398, Issue 6729, pp. 681-684 (1999).

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Ice exhibits many solid-state transformations under pressure, and also displays a variety of metastable phases. Most of the high-pressure phases of ice can be recovered at ambient pressure provided that they are first cooled below about 100K. These ice polymorphs might exist on the surfaces of several satellites of the outer planets. One of the few exceptions to this (meta)stability on quenching has been ice VII, the dominant high-pressure phase. Here we show that isothermal compression of D2O ice VI below 95K produces pure ice VII, and that this phase can remain stable at atmospheric pressure. It remains metastable indefinitely at 77K. Like the other recoverable ice phases, it transforms to low-density amorphous ice between about 120 and 150K at 1 bar. Thetemperature range over which ice VII remains metastable increases markedly on compression to 6GPa, indicating that ice VII is in fact the most robust of all the metastable ice phases.

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