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Ice: Properties and Geological Impact

Ice can exist in different forms depending on temperature and pressure. It is classified as a mineral due to its stable solid form below 0 degrees Celsius. Ice has a hexagonal crystal structure that causes it to expand when it freezes, unlike most substances. This expansion allows ice to float on water and plays a role in its erosive properties when forming in cracks and its ability to polish land surfaces.

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Ice: Properties and Geological Impact

Ice can exist in different forms depending on temperature and pressure. It is classified as a mineral due to its stable solid form below 0 degrees Celsius. Ice has a hexagonal crystal structure that causes it to expand when it freezes, unlike most substances. This expansion allows ice to float on water and plays a role in its erosive properties when forming in cracks and its ability to polish land surfaces.

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ICE

MADE BY : LAURA ,CARMEN ,CARLA ,GABRIELA AND PAULA.


INDEX:

 1-Ice as a mineral.
 2-Types of ice.
 3-Cryoscopic descent.
 4-The color of ice.
 5-Volume and density of water to solidify.
 6-Ice formation with water.
 7-Erosive action.
ICE:
 Ice is water in a solid state , one of the three natural states of water that are part of
the four .
Ice as a mineral:
 In mineralogy,ice is accepted as a mineral because it is a stable solid at
temperaturas of les tan 0 [Link] is classified in group 4 of mineral oxides as it
is a hydrogen oxide.
 Ice has a hexagonal structure in which each oxygen atom in a water molecule has
four other hydrogen atoms located at the verticles of a regular tetrahedron whose
center is the oxygen atom of interest. It is represented in 12 defferent crystalline
structures or phases.
TYPES OF ICE:
 Depending on the pressure and temperatura , it is
possible to adopt different forms of ordering , after
some experiments what a scientists did, applying
different pressures and temperaturas, they obtained
ice with higher densities and there are several
modifications : altropic and allotrophic.
THE COLOR OF ICE:
 The white light of the sun is formed by a mixture
of colors, the blue rays are the reasons for the blue
color of pure ice and glacier or iceberg. Snow is
white because alll the light that arrives is reflected
in a very thin layer that is on its surface.
VOLUME AND DENSITY OF WATER
TO SOLIDIFY:
 The typical density of ice at 0·C is usually taken as 0.916g/.cm³; or as 916.8kg/m

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE VOLUME OF WATER WHEN IT FREEZES?

- Normally substances when frozen take up lees , but wáter takes up more because its
structure is hexagonal ,which means that there are fewer molecules in the same
[Link] that’s why it expands when it freezes… As it warms up, it increases in
volume.

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE VOLUME OF WATER WHEN THE ICE MELTS?

-The reasons why the wáter level does not rise is because the ice floats and as it melts it
contracts… As we have seen verified in the experiment,when the ice is floating in the wáter
and melts,the total volume occupied by the wáter plus the ice remains the same.
ICE FORMATION WITH WATER:
 An ice can be made by isolating magnetic
materials in which the magnetic moments mimic
the position of protons in ice water and are
governed by energy limitations similar to the
Bernal Flowel rules. These materials are called
spin ice.
EROSIVE ACTION:
 The expansion of wáter as it solidifies has important
geological [Link] that gets into tiny cracks in rocks
on the earth’s surface creates an enormous amount of
pressure as it solidifies and splits or breaks the rocks. This
action of ice plays an important role in erosion. In
addition, glaciers,through friction, polish the land through
friction, polish the land through which they circulate .
End

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