- Database
- Experimentalists
- Date
- 2001-01-01
- Parent sample
- CH4 liquid
- Substrate material
- various
- Comments
- Generic sample of 3 experiments with different thicknesses
- Temperature
- 80.0 $\pm$ 0.1 $K$
- Temperature max
- 90.68 $\pm$ 0.01 $K$
- Comments
- temperature maxi is the formation temperature (triple point)]
- Type
- molecular gas
- Fluids
-
- $CH_4$ 100.0 $\pm$ 0.01 %
- Fluid temperature
- 90.7 $\pm$ 0.02 $K$
- Fluid pressure
- 0.117 $\pm$ 0.001 $bar$
- Comments
- in thermodynamic equilibrium with solid
- Number
- 1
- Layers
- Title
- Crystallisation of liquid CH4
- Materials
- Sample
- CH4 crystalline I (this sample)
- Processing steps
-
Step Chronology Date Type Process Changes #1 on parent sample 2001-01-01 thermal slow cooling (3 to 20K/h) from 93K to 90.68K under small vertical thermal gradient (0.1K/mm) monocrystals of solid CH4-I grown from crystallisation of liquid CH4