Question

Explain the structure of ice.​

Answer 1

AnsWer :

• Thee crystalline form of water is ice and it has a highly ordered three dimensional hydrogen bonded structure.

• Ice crystallizes in the hexagonal form at atmospheric pressure and condenses to cubic form at very low temperatures.

• X-ray study of ice shows that each oxygen atom is surrounded tetrahedrally by four hydrogen atoms at a distance of 276 pm.

• Thus, due to hydrogen bonding, structure of ice appears as an open cage with wide holes.

• These holes can hold some other molecules of appropriate size interstitially.