Snow, ice and other wonders of water : a tribute to the hydrogen bond / Ivar Olovsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olovsson, Ivar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snow--Popular works.

Snow.

Water--Popular works.

Water.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The book illustrates the fascinating world of the different forms of water — from ice and snow to liquid water. The water molecule, H2O, is the second most common molecule in the Universe (behind hydrogen, H2) and ice is the most abundant solid material. Snow and ice appear in a countless large number of different shapes and with properties which can be quite different. Detailed knowledge of the properties of snow is of great importance for the Sami people involved in reindeer herding and several hundred names are used to characterize the different types. The properties of ice and liquid water are very special and unique in several respects. In contrast to most other substances, the density of ice is lower than that of liquid water, which has many very important consequences in our daily life. Water plays a unique role in chemistry and although tremendous research has been spent on this seemingly simple substance, there are still many unsolved questions about the structure of liquid water. The special properties of water are due to hydrogen bonding between the H2O molecules, and this book may be seen as a tribute to the hydrogen bond. The general properties of the hydrogen bond are treated in three separate papers. The hydrogen bond is of fundamental importance in biological systems since all living matter has evolved from and exists in an aqueous environment and hydrogen bonds are involved in most biological processes. There is a hundred times more water molecules in our bodies than the sum of all the other molecules put together."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. There are Many Different Types of Snow; 2. Early Snow Crystal Observations; 3. Artificial Snow Crystals; "Snow crystals" with seven and eight arms; Can you find two identical snow crystals?; Von Koch's snowflake; Ice patterns on windows; Twins, snowflakes and hail; Aging of snow; Formation of rain; Snow cannons; 4. Snow and Ice Crystals in Nature; Macro photos by Alexey Kljatov, Andrei Osokin and Don Komarechka; Thin film interference in ice crystals; 5. Snow for Pleasure and Art; Snow festival in Sapporo, Japan; Snow festival in Harbin, China

Snow patterns by Simon Beck6. The Ice Surface and Formation of Ice Spikes; Ice spikes; The ice surface; Icebergs; Effect of ice melting on the sea level; Ice as aircraft carrier and Project Habakkuk; 7. Structure and Physical and Chemical Properties of Water and Ice; The water molecule; The structure of ordinary, hexagonal ice, Ih; The structure of other forms of ice; 8. Physical Properties of Water and Ice; Significance in Nature; Surface properties of ice and snow; The structure of liquid water; Models for the water structure; Polywater; 9. The Water Molecule is Unique; Reprints

Olovsson, I. (2006) Comparison of the proton transfer path in hydrogen bonds from theoretical potential energy surfaces and the concept of conservation of bond orders, Z. Phys. Chem. 220: 797-810.1. Introduction; 2. Reaction coordinates from theoretical potential energy surface, QMRC; 3. Reaction coordinates from bond orders, BORC; 3.1 System F-H

-F; 3.2 System O-H

-O; 3.3 System N-H

-N; 3.4 System Cl-H

-Cl; 3.5 Systems X-H

-Y; 3.6 Trimeric hydrogen, H-H

-H; 4. Comparison betweenQMRC and BORC; 4.1 Trimeric hydrogen, H-H

-H; 4.2 F-H

-F system; 4.3 O-H

-O system; 4.4 Cl-H

-Cl system

4.5 Other X-H

-Y bonds5. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2016).

ISBN:

981-4749-37-0