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Supercooled water

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X-ray scattering measurements of liquid water down to temperatures at which it spontaneously converts to ice show no signs of the much debated transition from high-density to low-density structural order.

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Figure 1: Temperature dependence of water's structure factor, S(q), determined from X-ray scattering.

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Soper, A. Continuous trends. Nature Mater 13, 671–673 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4019

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