Phase separation in dilute LiCl-H2O solution related to the polyamorphism of liquid water |
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Authors: | Mishima Osamu |
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Affiliation: | Advanced Nano Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan. |
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Abstract: | When an emulsified 4.8 mol % LiCl-H2O solution was cooled under a pressure of 0.35 or 0.45 GPa and decompressed to 0.1 GPa at 142 K, slightly above its glass transition temperature (approximately 140 K at 0.1 GPa), its volume increased suddenly. This was regarded as an appearance of the low-density amorphous ice in the liquid solution as suggested by x-ray and Raman measurements, and this appearance corresponded to the high-to-low-density polyamorphic transition of pure H2O. Hysteresis was considered to accompany this volumetric change. The hysteresis of the liquid transition proves its first-order nature and, as for the solution, this suggests that the transition is a polyamorphic phase separation. |
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