Freezing an aqueous solution always causes water to separate and form a pure ice lattice
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the evidence says no
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Freezing an aqueous solution does not always form a pure ice lattice, as rapid cooling or high solute concentrations can lead to vitrification or amorphous freeze-concentrated structures rather than pure ice separation.
Evidence against · 2
Glass Transition and Re-Crystallization Phenomena of Frozen Materials and Their Effect on Frozen Food Quality.
2021 · cited by 21
Discusses how freezing aqueous solutions (such as sucrose) produces noncrystalline, freeze-concentrated structures and glass transitions rather than pure ice lattices exclusively.
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Tailoring tetrahedral and pair-correlation entropies of glass-forming liquids for energy storage applications at ultralow temperatures.
2024 · cited by 15
Demonstrates that aqueous solutions can experience vitrification (glass transition) instead of ice crystallization depending on cooling conditions and solute interactions.