Ice II

Ice II was discovered by Gustav Tammann in 1900 (Ref. 1). Ice II is proton-ordered and belongs to the $R{\overline {3}}$ space group, having 12 molecules per unit cell.

References

1. G. Tammann "Ueber die Grenzen des festen Zustandes IV", Annalen der Physik 2 pp. 1-31 (1900)
2. Barclay Kamb "Ice. II. A proton-ordered form of ice", Acta Crystallographica 17 pp. 1437-1449 (1964)
3. Barclay Kamb, Walter C. Hamilton, Sam J. LaPlaca and Anand Prakash "Ordered Proton Configuration in Ice II, from Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction", Journal of Chemical Physics 55 pp. 1934-1945 (1971)
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6. Carlos Vega, Carl McBride, Eduardo Sanz and Jose L. F. Abascal "Radial distribution functions and densities for the SPC/E, TIP4P and TIP5P models for liquid water and ices Ih, Ic, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, XI and XII", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 7 pp. 1450 - 1456 (2005)