Constituent
- Name
- H2O crystalline - phase Ih and/or Ic
- Official name
- Water ice Ih
- Family
- molecular solid
- Class
- hydrogen bonded molecular solid
- Compound type
- inorganic molecular solid
- Comments
- Subsequent to the process of deposition, the crystalline ice film was cooled to the desired irradiation temperature (20-120 K). It is important to note that, in this context, "crystalline water ice" is referring to either the metastable cubic Ic or the hexagonal Ih crystalline forms of water ice. However, the precise crystalline nature of thin films remains uncertain due to the presence of stacking disorders during the film’s growth process.
- Relevance
- main - major
- Arrangement
- single phase
- Mass fraction
- 1.0
- Mole fraction
- 1.0 $\pm$ 0.0001
- Abundance comments
- potentially some remaining CO2, O2 and N2 in very low, but unestimated, abundances
- Formula
- $H_2O$
- Chemical formula
- H2O
- Elemental formula
- H2 O
- Isotope mixture type
- terrestrial abundance
- Oxides
-
Formula $H_{2}O$ Mass fraction (%) 1.0
- Class
- molecular solids with hydrogen bonded molecules (03)
- Type
- homomolecular H-bonded solids (03.01)
- Group
- H2O polymorphs (03.01.01)
- Code
- 03.01.01.01
- Phase name
- H2O Ih
- Phase type
- crystalline
- Crystal system
- hexagonal
- Crystal class
- dihexagonal-dipyramidal
- Crystal class symbol
- 6/mmm (D6h)
- Crystal spacegroup
- P6(3)/mmc
- Texture
- polycrystalline
- Molar mass
- 18.0153 $g/mol$
- Density
- 0.917 (273 K) - 0.928 (90 K) $g/cm^3$
- Refringence type
- uniaxial
- Refringence sign
- unknown
- Birefringence
- 0.01
- Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$
- 1.31
- Refraction index $n_{\beta}$
- 1.33
- Color
- light blue (when thick)
- Diaphaneity
- transparent
- Luster
- vitreous