Ice Ih

Ice Ih (hexagonal ice) is a proton disordered ice phase having the space group P6₃/mmc. Ice Ih has the following lattice parameters at 250 K: a=4.51842 Å, $b=a{\sqrt {3}}$, and c=7.35556 Å with four molecules per unit cell (in Table 3 of ). The proton ordered form of ice Ih is known as ice XI, which (in principle) forms when ice Ih is cooled to below 72K (it is usually doped with KOH to aid the transition).

Melting point

The following is a collection of melting points $(T_{m})$ for the ice Ih-water transition:

$T_{m}$	Pressure	Technique/model	Reference
$232(4)~K$	1 bar	TIP4P / free energy calculation
$272(6)~K$	1 bar	TIP4P/Ice / free energy calculation
$245.5(6)~K$	1 bar	TIP4P/Ew / free energy calculation
$215(4)~K$	1 bar	SPC/E / free energy calculation
$252(6)~K$	1 bar	TIP4P/2005 / free energy calculation
$289~K$	1 bar	NvdE
$417\pm 3~K$	2500 bar	Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof functional
$411\pm 4~K$	10,000 bar	Becke-Lee-Yang-Parr functional

• Jose L. F. Abascal and C. Vega "The melting point of hexagonal ice (Ih) is strongly dependent on the quadrupole of the water models", PCCP 9 pp. 2775 - 2778 (2007)

Radial distribution function

• Carlos Vega, Carl McBride, Eduardo Sanz and Jose L. F. Abascal "Radial distribution functions and densities for the SPC/E, TIP4P and TIP5P models for liquid water and ices Ih, Ic, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, XI and XII", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 7 pp. 1450 - 1456 (2005)

Phonon density of states

In the phonon density of states for the POL1, TIPS2, TIP4P, TIP3P, SPC, Rowlinson, MCY, and BF models for water are compared to experiment.

Experimental data

• Rainer Feistel and Wolfgang Wagner "A New Equation of State for H2O Ice Ih", Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data 35 pp. 1021- (2006)

References

Related reading

• Linus Pauling "The Structure and Entropy of Ice and of Other Crystals with Some Randomness of Atomic Arrangement", Journal of the American Chemical Society 57 pp. 2674 - 2680 (1935)
• E. G. Noya, C. Menduiña, J. L. Aragones, and C. Vega "Equation of State, Thermal Expansion Coefficient, and Isothermal Compressibility for Ices Ih, II, III, V, and VI, as Obtained from Computer Simulation", Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111 pp. 15877 - 15888 (2007)