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. 2014 Oct 27;53(44):11699-701.
doi: 10.1002/anie.201408057. Epub 2014 Sep 22.

Advancing into water's "no man's land": two liquid states?

Dietmar Paschek  1 , Ralf Ludwig
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Advancing into water's "no man's land": two liquid states?

Dietmar Paschek et al. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. .

Abstract

A tale of two liquids? Liquid water exhibits many anomalous properties which are strongly amplified in the supercooled state. A possible explanation for the unusual behavior is a phase transition between two distinct metastable forms of liquid water at deeply supercooled conditions. A recent theoretical study has confirmed the existence of this liquid-liquid phase transition.

Keywords: X-ray diffraction; glass transition; metastable liquids; phase transitions; water.

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