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WATER behaves approximately as a normal liquid with respect to its volume at a high temperature and pressure. The expected volume of the liquid at room temperature is obtained by extrapolation, for example, using the formula of Jacobson and Heedman1. The volume thus deduced corresponds to a state without hydrogen bonding (at 0° C. about 8 per cent denser than ordinary water). Each hydrogen bond formed at a given temperature (t < 174° C.) is now assumed to affect the ideal liquid in the same way, raising the molecular volume to that of ice when two moles of hydrogen bonds are established. (Ice is supposed to exhibit the same thermal expansion above 0° C. as immediately below.)
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Jacobson, B., and Heedman, P. A., Acta Chem. Scand., 7, 705 (1953).
Finbak, Chr., Norske Vidensk. Akad., Avh. I. Matem.-Naturv. Kl. No.10 (1945).
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GRJOTHEIM, K., KROGH-MOE, J. Hydrogen Bonding and the Volume of Water. Nature 173, 774 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173774a0
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