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Crystal nucleation

Zeroing in on ice

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Computer simulations show that cubic and hexagonal ices nucleate through the formation of a tetragonal metastable ice phase.

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Figure 1: Stability of several ice phases.

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  1. Ben Slater is in the Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London W C1H 0AJ, UK,

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  2. David Quigley is in the Department of Physics and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK,

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