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The morphology of ice and liquid brine in an environmental scanning electron microscope: a study of the freezing methods
Environmental Electron Microscopy Group, Institute of Scientific
Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Vilém Neděla
Environmental Electron Microscopy Group, Institute of Scientific
Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Jiří Runštuk
Environmental Electron Microscopy Group, Institute of Scientific
Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Short summary
We froze salty solutions to examine where and how the brine is distributed within the ice by using an environmental scanning electron microscope. The structures are highly heterogeneous, consisting of almost pure ice intertwined with brine, which can form lamellae, veins, or pools on the surface. Considering various concentrations and methods for laboratory ice preparation, we determined how the freezing technique influences the microstructure of the brine on and in the ice.
We froze salty solutions to examine where and how the brine is distributed within the ice by...