Constituent H2O ice | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: H2O ice
Official name: Water ice Ih

Family: molecular solid
Class: hydrogen bonded molecular solid
Compound type: inorganic molecular solid

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Abundance comments: possibly condensed on the mineral constituents and in their pores

Chemical composition

Formula: $H_2O$
Chemical formula: H2O
Elemental formula: H2 O
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$H_2O$	Water	molecule	1	1.0	1.0	pure	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number	Relevance
	$R-OH$	2	main

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number	Relevance
	$-O \dots H-$	4
	$-O-H$	2	main

Oxides composition

Oxides

Formula	$H_{2}O$
Mass fraction (%)	1.0

Class: molecular solids with hydrogen bonded molecules (03)
Type: homomolecular H-bonded solids (03.01)
Group: H2O polymorphs (03.01.01)
Code: 03.01.01.01

Phase name: H2O Ih
Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: hexagonal
Crystal class: dihexagonal-dipyramidal
Crystal class symbol: 6/mmm (D6h)
Crystal spacegroup: P6(3)/mmc

Physical properties

Molar mass: 18.0153 $g/mol$
Density: 0.917 (273 K) - 0.928 (90 K) $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Refringence type: uniaxial
Refringence sign: unknown
Birefringence: 0.01
Refraction index $n_{\alpha}$: 1.31
Refraction index $n_{\beta}$: 1.33
Color: light blue (when thick)
Diaphaneity: transparent
Luster: vitreous