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Glass transition in hyperquenched water? (reply)

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The alternating support for and denial of a glass transition for amorphous water at 136 K has resumed after a hiatus of 20 years, during which it seemed secure. We revived the alternative interpretation1 by looking again at the calorimetric signal that previously provided the most direct evidence for the glass transition2,3 — and now Kohl et al.4 present new data to support the original interpretation. We show here that their results are also consistent with our conclusions.

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Figure 1: Results analogous to those in Fig. 1 (top curves) of Kohl et al.4, but for non-crystallizing basaltic hyperquenched glass.

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Chemistry Section, Aalborg University, Aalborg, 9000, Denmark

    Yuanzheng Yue

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287, Arizona, USA

    C. Austen Angell

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Yue, Y., Angell, C. Glass transition in hyperquenched water? (reply). Nature 435, E1–E2 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03708

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