The Distortion of a Water Molecule in Ice

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Author: Whalley, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1978
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002214300003327x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S002214300003327X

Abstract The experimental evidence for the distortion of a water molecule when it is condensed to form ice is reviewed. The specific distortions considered are the changes in inter-nuclear distances, energy and its derivatives with respect to nuclear motion, and electrical moments and polarizabilities and their response to nuclear motion. Some of the properties of ice can be expanded as Fourier or Taylor series in the ratio r/R of the O–H to the O—O distances, and these expansions are used to relate various properties of the intermolecular potential energy, of the electrical dipole moments, and of the polarizability. For example, the amplitude of the orientation polarization can be related to the infrared intensity of the fundamental and first overtone infrared bands.