ISSN:
1089-7690
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The changes of enthalpy at the irreversible transformation of high-density amorphous ice to low-density amorphous ice and of low-density amorphous ice to ice Ih have been measured in a Tian–Calvet heat-flow calorimeter. The equilibrium pressures of the two transformations have been estimated from the measured enthalpy and volume changes, neglecting the unknown, but small, entropy changes, as about 5 and 2 kbar, respectively. The course of the transformations has been followed in a piston-cylinder apparatus having an internal diameter of either 50 or 12 mm. The transformations are extraordinarily sharp when they are done slowly, the transformation pressure being constant to ±50 bar in 5 or 10 kbar in several transformations, although sometimes a sample transformed in two steps that were a few hundred bars apart. It seems that the activation volumes of the transformations are large and negative, and so the mechanism of the transformations is highly cooperative.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.457285
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