Thermodynamic equilibrium of water and ice at room temperature under an electric field in unbounded media.
Based on thermodynamical considerations, we show that water and ice in an unbounded medium can coexist as different phases at room temperature under the effect of the variable (frequency of about 10(5) Hz) electric field of about 4 x 10(5) V/cm. The latter value is much weaker than that theoretically predicted for alignment of water dipoles (>10(7) V/cm), but somewhat greater than the experimental data (2-8) x 10(4) V/cm, which have been obtained recently for freezing of water confined between solid walls separated by only a few molecular diameters.
Vorob'ev
V S
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Institute for High Energy Densities of Russian Academy of Sciences, 125412 Moscow, Russia. vrbv@mail.ru
Malyshenko
S P
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