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Grain Growth in Polycrystalline Ice
Author(s) -
Jellinek H. H. G.,
Gouda V. K.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.19690310149
Subject(s) - crystallite , grain growth , materials science , diffusion , grain size , doping , amorphous ice , grain boundary , activation energy , chemical physics , crystallography , thermodynamics , amorphous solid , chemistry , composite material , metallurgy , physics , microstructure , optoelectronics
Literature is not available on the grain growth in polycrystalline ice. The present paper deals with such grain growth in pure ice and ice doped with sodium chloride. The technique consists in measuring grain size distributions as a function of time and deriving the numberaverage equivalent “diameter”, considering the grains as spheres. The functional relationship between the average diameter and time of growth is, for pure and doped ice, of the same form as that found for metals. Arrhenius plots show that the energy of activation is higher for doped ice than for pure ice. The results are discussed in terms of interfacial free energy as being ultimately responsible for grain growth. On a molecular scale, processes take place, which lead to diffusion of units consisting of a number of water molecules across the boundaries.