H2O
H2O polymorphs
H2O polymorphs
Ice VI
Ice VI
Mineral name: unnamed
Discovery: Democratic Republic of Congo (diamond inclusion)
*References*
Kagi H., Lu R., Davidson P., Goncharov A. F., Mao H. K., and Hemley R. J. 2000. Mineralogical Magazine 64:1089–1097. (Discovery based on infrared spectoscopy)
Ice VII
Ice VII
Mineral name: Ice-VII
Discovery: Orapa, Namaqualand, Southern Africa, Cullinan mine, Gauteng province, South Africa (diamond inclusions)
*References*
Tschauner O., Huang S., Greenberg E., Prakapenka V. B., Ma C., Rossman G. R., Shen A. H., Zhang D., Newville M., Lanzirotti A., and Tait K. 2018. Science 359:1136–1139. (Discovery)