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THE “inability of forming solid solutions with any compound” was attributed to water two years ago by Mironov and Bergman1, who refuted previous reports by Giguere and Maass2 and by Kubaschewski and Weber3 of the solubility of hydrogen peroxide in ice. Yet Kathleen Lonsdale4 directed attention to the fact that ice and ammonium fluoride are not only isomorphous but also give very similar diffuse star-shaped streaks on Laue X-ray patterns, which were attributed to thermal vibrations of hydrogen nuclei. This great similarity suggested that ice and ammonium fluoride might form mixed crystals.
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BRILL, R., ZAROMB, S. Mixed Crystals of Ice and Ammonium Fluoride. Nature 173, 316–317 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173316a0
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