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clathrate hydrate

A cagelike arrangement of water molecules stabilized by a central guest molecule. Such hydrates exist at higher pressures (> 10 atmospheres) at > 100 m depth in glaciers where air bubbles trapped in the process of firn formation near the surface appear to dissolve in the ice.

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