The interface between ice and silicate surfaces
By: by Duwayne M. Anderson
Series: Research report - Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory -- 219; Research report (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)) -- 219
Publisher: U.S. Army Materiel Command, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Surfaces (Technology); Montmorillonite; Surfaces; Ice; Frozen ground; Soil moisture
Description: Experiments have been conducted with a particular layer lattice silicate, montmorillonite, in order to study the interaction of water and ice with silicate surfaces. The structural features of this class of silicate minerals are described, and other aspects which have a particular bearing on interfacial phenomena are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the nature of water and aqueous solutions, mechanisms of clay-water interaction, physical and thermodynamic properties of clay-adsorbed water, freezing point depression and supercooling, the existence of unfrozen interfacial water, spatial distribution of unfrozen water, the nature of the ice phase, and phase relationships. (Author).
Notes: "March 1967."

"DA Task IV014501B52A02."

Bibliography: p. 27-31.