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IT has long been known from measurements of specific heat1 that solid hydrogen chloride undergoes a first order phase transition at about 98.4° K. A similar phase transition was later found2 in solid deuterium chloride at about 105.0° K. X-ray powder photographs3 revealed that the crystal structure of hydrogen chloride was orthorhombic below the transition point and cubic above it. They also indicated that the chlorine atoms formed a face-centred lattice in both phases, but gave no clue regarding the location of the hydrogen atoms. Subsequent dielectric constant4, infra-red and Raman spectra5 and nuclear magnetic resonance6 investigations resulted in a variety of structural models for both phases of solid hydrogen chloride. Nevertheless, the indirect character of the structural information provided by these investigations did not allow an unambiguous choice between the various models.
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SÁNDOR, E., FARROW, R. Crystal Structure of Solid Hydrogen Chloride and Deuterium Chloride. Nature 213, 171–172 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213171a0
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