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MUCH of the literature dealing with the dielectric properties of ice1 has used Bjerrum's concepts of D- and L-defects2. A pair of D- and L-defects is formed (Fig. 1) when a water molecule in ice rotates through 120° around one of its O–H … O axes, thus leaving one pair of neighbour O … O atoms with no intervening hydrogen atom (L-defect), and another pair of neighbours O–H … H–O with two hydrogens (D-defect). A subsequent similar rotation of the appropriate molecule adjacent to the L-defect separates these two defects.
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EISENBERG, D., COULSON, C. Energy of Formation of D-Defects in Ice. Nature 199, 368–369 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199368b0
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