Peculiarities of methane clathrate hydrate formation and solid-state deformation, including possible superheating of water ice

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Slow, constant-volume heating of water ice plus methane gas mixtures forms methane clathrate hydrate by a progressive reaction that occurs at the nascent ice/liquid water interface. As this reaction proceeds, the rate of melting of metastable water ice may be suppressed to allow short-lived superheating of ice to at least 276 kelvin. Plastic flow properties measured on clathrate test specimens are significantly different from those of water ice; under nonhydrostatic stress, methane clathrate undergoes extensive strain hardening and a process of solid-state disproportionation or exsolution at conditions well within its conventional hydrostatic stability field.

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Stern, L.A., Kirby, S.H., and Durham, W.B., 1996, Peculiarities of methane clathrate hydrate formation and solid-state deformation, including possible superheating of water ice: Science, v. 273, no. 5283, p. 1843-1848, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5283.1843.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Peculiarities of methane clathrate hydrate formation and solid-state deformation, including possible superheating of water ice
Series title Science
DOI 10.1126/science.273.5283.1843
Volume 273
Issue 5283
Year Published 1996
Language English
Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description 6 p.
First page 1843
Last page 1848
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