Article: Studies from McMaster University in the area of chemical physics published.

"It is shown that exothermic and endothermic features of dH(m)/dt observed on heating rapidly precooled and slowly precooled states of water in 1.8 nm pores of MCM-41 and the unusually large increase in the specific heat in the 210-230 K range [M. Oguni, Y. Kanke, S. Namba, and AIP Conf, Proc. 982, 34 (2008)] are inconsistent with kinetic unfreezing of a disordered solid, or glass softening. The exotherm is attributable to the melt's gradual conversion to distorted icelike structures and the endotherm to the reverse process until their fractional amounts reach a reversible equilibrium on heating," investigators in Hamilton, Canada report.

"The large increase in ...

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