Science, Vol.273, No.5271, 90-92, 1996
2 Calorimetrically Distinct States of Liquid Water Below 150 Kelvin
Vapor-deposited amorphous solid and hyperquenched glassy water were found to irreversibly transform, on compression at 77 kelvin, to a high-density amorphous solid. On heating at atmospheric pressure, this solid became viscous water (water B), with a reversible glass-liquid transition onset at 129 +/- 2 kelvin. A different form of viscous water (water A) was formed by heating the uncompressed vapor-deposited amorphous solid and hyperquenched liquid water. On thermal cycling up to 148 kelvin, water B remained kinetically and thermodynamically distinct from water A. The occurrence of these two states, which do not interconvert, helps explain both the configurational relaxation of water and stress-induced amorphization.
Keywords:PRESSURE-INDUCED AMORPHIZATION;HYPERQUENCHED GLASSY WATER;DILUTE AQUEOUS-SOLUTIONS;DENSITY AMORPHOUS WATER;ICE-I;X-RAY;NEUTRON-SCATTERING;MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS;HEXAGONAL ICE;SOLID WATER