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Science 19 April 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3825, pp. 298 - 299
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3825.298
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Vitrification Temperature of Water

Ioannis Yannas 1

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Camnbridge 02139

The vitrification temperature (Tg) of water is an elusive quantity because of the great difficulty in supercooling water sufficiently without initiating its crystallization. Water depresses the vitrification temperature of glycerol (184°K) monotonously, and this property has been used for derivation of an estimate of its Tg. The result, 127° ± 4°K (-146° ± 4°C), is the temperature below which water presumably exists as a brittle, glassy substance.


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