Transition from cage clathrate to filled ice: the structure of methane hydrate III.
The structure of a new methane hydrate has been solved at 3 GPa from neutron and x-ray powder diffraction data. It is a dihydrate in which a 3D H-bonded network of water molecules forms channels surrounding the methane molecules. The network is closely related to that of ice-Ih and the methane-water system appears to be the first in which a cage clathrate hydrate is transformed into an ice-related hydrate (a "filled ice").
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Department of Physics and Astronomy and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom.
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