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ice structure

The arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal. Under normal atmospheric temperatures and pressures between 0° and −100°C, water molecules arrange themselves into an hexagonal crystalline structure called ice-Ih. When viewed along the principal c axis these molecules form spatial hexagonal rings lying above each other, each water molecule surrounded by four others, in a near tetrahedral arrangement.

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