Zeolitic Ice ITT and Aeroice 4xFAU Illustrated (IMAGE)

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Zeolitic Ice ITT and Aeroice 4xFAU Illustrated

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Zeolitic ice ITT (left) and aeroice 4xFAU (right) are illustrated. Their structure can be regarded as combinations of a couple of polyhedral building blocks. In molecular scale, each polygonal face of the polyhedra is made of water molecules (left bottom). Yellow lines are hydrogen bonds.

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Masakazu Matsumoto/CC BY 2.0

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