The hypersensitivity of the water phase diagram to ammonium fluoride doping

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Water displays a highly complex phase diagram that is key to a range of critical processes, from the evolution of icy moons to that of the Earth's hydrosphere and even of life itself. Using ISIS facilities, we have recently shown that the water phase diagram is hypersensitive to ammonium fluoride doping which leads to the complete disappearance of the hydrogen-ordered ice II from the phase diagram. This phenomenon can be explained on the basis of the topologically constraint nature of ice II and the incompatibility of ammonium and fluoride ions with the ordered local structure. Building on this exciting finding we now need to further map the phase diagram of ND4F/ice mixtures and to investigate the effect of ND4F on the hydrogen ordering phase transitions from ice III to IX and ice VII to VIII. These experiments will give new insights into the origins of the complexity of condensed H2O.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.89609530
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/89609530
Provenance
Creator Dr Craig Bull; Ms Zainab Sharif; Mr Martin Hart; Professor Christoph Salzmann; Dr Alexander Rosu-Finsen; Miss Siriney Halukeerthi; Miss Sukhpreet Talewar
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-05T10:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-15T06:42:04Z