Figure 5
A stack plot of diffraction patterns of ice VI collected on warming the sample. The bottom data set was collected at 80 K; successive scans are at 20 K intervals to 240 K. The heating rate between scans was 2 K min−1. The same counting time (39 min) was used for all data collected between 100 and 240 K; the pattern at 80 K (also shown in Fig. 4), which was counted for 130 min, has been scaled accordingly. For clarity, successive patterns are offset vertically by 200 counts. The breakdown of the sample to a stacking-disordered `cubic ice' by 160 K and its subsequent transformation into poorly crystalline ice Ih by 220 K can be clearly seen. The inset photograph shows the sample on removal from the diffractometer at 240 K. |