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HIGH-RESOLUTION NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION STUDY OF ICE Ic
W. Kuhs, D. Bliss, J. Finney
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W. Kuhs, D. Bliss, J. Finney. HIGH-RESOLUTION NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION STUDY OF ICE Ic. Journal de Physique Colloques, 1987, 48 (C1), pp.C1-631-C1-636.
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HIGH-RESOLUTION NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION STUDY OF ICE Ic
W.F. KUHS, D.V. BLISS* and J.L. FINNEY*
Institut Laue-Langevin, 156 X , F-38042 Grenoble Cedex, France
i irk beck College, Department of Crystallography, Malet Street, GB-London WClE 7HX, Great-Britain
R6sum6 - La glace cubique 1, deut6r6e a 6t6 6tudi6e par diffraction de neutrons haute r6solution. La structure fine du groupe dlespace Fd3m a 6t6 examin6e. Les atomes dPhydrog8ne sont totalement d6sordonn6s et les distances interatomiques sont identiques & celles de la glace Ih. Bien que l'apparence g6n6rale du diagramme de poudre soit cubique, plusieurs anomalies ont 6t6 observ6es. Les effets de taille des particules sont importants et 2 partir de 1'6largissement du pic, une taille moyenne des particules de 160 (30) 2 a 6t6 calcul6e. Quelques pics de Bragg montrent un Blargissement suppl6mentaire ou une dissym6trie du c6t6 des faibles angles indiquant l'existence de fautes dlempilement. La presence enfin dlun pic de Bragg non cubique qui a 6tB index6 100 dans le r6seau de la glace Ih est expliqu6 en terme de sequence hexagonale dans l'empilement.
Abstract - High-resolution neutron powder diffraction data on deuterated cubic ice (ice 1,) prepared by transforming recovered ice I1 have been obtained. Structure refinements in the cubic spacegroup Fd3m were performed. The hydrogen atoms are fully disordered and the interatomic distances are found to be identical with those inice Ib. Although the general appearance of the powder pattern is cubic, several anoma- lies have been observed. Paticle size effects are important and from the peak broadening a mean particle size of 160(30) 8 was calculated. Some Bragg peaks show additional broadening or distinct skewness on the high- or low-angle side indicating the existence of deformation faults in the stacking sequence. The presence of at least one non-cubic Bragg peak, which can be indexed as 100 in the lattice of ice Ih, is explained in terms of hexagonal sequences in the stacking.
The existence of a second crystalline ambient pressure modification of the water substance besides hexagonal ice (ice Ih) is well established. O n crystallo- graphic evidence it was named cubic ice (ice Ic) p Konigg, although it had b y n observed5as a new phase earlier on by Barendrecht , Dewar , *on and Oliver and McParlan . A great deal of work has been done since K6nig*ssuelectron diffraction study on cubic ice, but one is still far from a full understanding of its structure and properties and even its stability range.
There are several ways of preparing ice Icr it can be formed by 1 -
temperature deposition of water vapour in a range between 130 and 150 XZeSg' 1,s , by transformation on heating of vapour-deposited amorphous iceebg' '
transformation on heating of various rec by 8,9,lO
~~~f~ high-pressure icese ' ' or by rapid cooling of aqueous solutionse'g' . once formed, it is stable from O°K to approximately 200 K, where it begins to transform into ice Ih. This transfor-
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mation is slow and apparently depends t o some e x t e n t on t h e sappple h i s t o r y . Transformation tt3mperatUIXS as low as 153 K have been observed , which i n d i c a t e s that ice Ic is probably a l w a y s metastable w i t h respect t o ice Ih. For a more d e t a i l e d discussipg o f i c e Ic preparation and its transformation behaviour we refer t o the l i t e r a t u r e . The hef&,fg,$gansformation f o r t h e i c e Ic
+ice Ih t r a n s i t i o n has been me ured repeatedly . The heat evolved was found t o be very small
( < 20 J 1 . This is not r e a l l y s u r p r i s i n g since the hexagonal arrangement o f t h e oxygen atoms i n ice Ih is e n e r g e t i c a l l y very s i m i l a r t o t h e presumed cubic arrangement i n ice Ic. Indeed t h e nearest neighbour s i t u a t i o n as w e l l as t h e number o f next-nearest neighbours are i d e n t i c a l i n both forms ae, fqnsequently, are t h e averaged dipolfomoments and t h e Coulombic i n t e r a c t i o n eygrgies . Moreover t h e calculated densitylg, the l i b r a t i o n a l and v i b r a t i o n a l bands and t h e nuclear magnetic resonance t h e t r a n s l a t i o n a l bands show a are found t o be slight the difference same wi ?ill- m , which the experimental e r r o r . Only is expected from the d i f f e r e n t number o f acoustic branches according t o t h e change i n symmetry.
However, the two forms are d i s t i n c t i n terms of their three-dimensional s t r u c t u r e and d i f f r a c t i o n seema t o be t h e appropriate t o o l t o quantify s i m i l a r i t i e s and d i f f e r e n c e s i n t h e i r s t r u c t u r e s , which u l t i m a t e l y may lead t o a better understanding o f their r e l a t i v e stabilities.
A s e r i e s o f s t r u c t u r a l i n v e s t i g a t i o n s has been p e r f o m 2 s i n c e l(f!~&a;$~ 1 a n a l y s i s . Ice Ic h~ been studied by e l e c t r o n d i f f r a c t i o n , X-ray
neutron d i f f r a c t i o n . It has been repeatedly ObSerped that t h e paweler p a t t e r n was not a cle one b u t contained some extra l i n e s , which were mainly
attributed sq'f"' t o t h e conggant presence o f ice Ih f o r a l l t h e preparation procedures. B e r t i e 6. Jacobs hawever suggested that the extra f e a t u r e s may not be due t o ice I h impurity, but the q u a l i t y o f t h e i r d a t a d i d not allow them t o pursue t h i s point. P a r t i c l e s i g e broadening has been found i n s e v e r a l s t u d i e s with mean g r a i n s i z e s between 130 A lo A f u l l s t r u c t u r e refinement has not been
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d rmlkz' t h a t i c e Ic has a disordered hydrogen reported, but there is some evldence
arrangement very s i m i l a r t o i c e Ih. The spacegroup f o r t h e idealized cubic s t r u c t u r e is Pd3m and a hypothetical ordered form could c r y s t a l l i z e i n the space- groups 141md o r P2 2 2 . A partial o r f u l l y ordered hydrogen arrangement f o r ice I c has been sugges$e&,lbased on a d i f f e r e n c e i n the h e a t capacities o f cubic and hexagonal ice. C o n t r 3 g i n g with the generally accepted c l o s e resemblance o f cubic and hexagonal iceeeg' t h i s finding still awaits f u r t h e r c l a r i f i c a t i o n .
W e present here the r e s u l t s o f a high-resolution neutron powder d i f f r a c t i o n study on the deuterated i c e Ic and a preliminary a n a l y s i s o f the powder p a t t e r n obtained w i l l be given, whereby special a t t e n t i o n w i l l be paid t o t h e anomalies i n t h e p a t t e r n .
C u b i c ice Ih ( D 0 ) has been obtained by warming ice I1 recovered at ambient pressure and 77 K. d e heating process was not contsglled and occurred when the sample was t r a n s f e r r e d from t h e helium-pressure cell t o the c r y o s t a t , which was held at a temperature o f 7 8 ( l ) K. Neutron powder d i f f r a c t i o n p a t t e r n s were recorded on t h e high-resolution powder diffractometer V I A at the I g s t i t u t
Laue-Langevin, Gregoble, at wavelengths o f 1.390, 1.909 and 2.988 A . The p a t t e r n obtained a t 1.909 A is shown i n Fig. 1. A l l peaks i n the d i f f r a c t i o n p a t t e r n were analysed i n t h e usual way by f i t t i n g t h e position, the full-width a t half-height (PWHtl) and t h e h e i g h t o f a Gaussian d i s t r i b u t i o n t o the observed peak-shape.
Integrated i n t e n s i t i e s were c a l c u l a t e d from the obtained peak parameters and corrected f o r Lorentz e f f e c t s . A f i r s t inspection of t h e p a t t e r n s indicated a broadening o f the Bragg peaks a t higher angles. The broadening s p e c i f i c t o the i c e Ic sample was obtained by comparing it w i t h the instrumental broadening as
established with an ice I& sample o f comparable s i z e . S t r u c t u r e refinements were
performed with the 1.390 A d a t a using t h e PROMWHEWS~~ s u i t e of programs modified
f o r the use o f integrated powder i n t e n s i t i e s ; due t o the i r r e g u l a r broadening o f
some Bragg pea- t h e usual p r o f i l e refinement technique could not be applied.
Figure 1 Neutron p o 4 e r d i f f r a c t i o n p a t t e r n o f heavy ice Ic recorded a t 78 K with 1.909 A neutrons. Note t h e shoulders on the 111 and 222 r e f l e c t i o n s (arrows).
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The powder p a t t e r n o f i c e Ic shows t h r e e unusual features: the l i n e s are broadened i n a complicated way, same l i n e s have d i s t i n c t shoulders and at least one r e f l e c t i o n cannot be indexed i n the presumed cubic l a t t i c e . S t i l l , the general appearance o f the p a t t e r n is c l e a r l y cubic as confinned by the s t r u c t u r e refinement. The integrated i n t e n s i t i e s used i t i t h e refinement include a l l anomalies (shoulders, broadening), which w e r e described - i f necessary - by
a d d i t i o n a l Gaussian components overlapping with the main peak. The refinement was done i n the spacegoup Fd3m and converged with a weighted R-factor of 0.058. There w a s - apart from t h e cubic 111 r e f l e c t i o n - no indication o f t h e presence of hexagonal r e f l e c t i o n s superimposing on t h e cubic l i n e s . S t r u c t u r e f a c t o r c a l c u l a t i o n s i n t h e hypothetical f e r r o e l e c t r i c a l l y and a n t i f e r r o e l e c t r i c a l l y ordered spacegroups I 4 md and P2 2 2 respectively gave strong disagreement. Table
1 1 1 1
1 gives the refined s t r u c t u r a l parameters.
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Table 1; The idealized s t r u c t u r e * of ice Ic at 78 K
* Origin a t c e n t r e of 2000
1000
& A