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Electric resistance of water films on the surface of ice near the phase transition temperature

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The electric resistance of the surface layer of a polycrystalline sample of freshwater ice has been measured on heating the sample up to the melting temperature. At the onset of ice melting, a monotonic decrease in the resistance of the ice surface changes to growth, and this again is followed by decrease in the course of melting. In the growth stage, the resistance exhibited a more than twofold increase. The observed behavior is related to breakage of a quasi-liquid surface layer possessing a higher conductivity, which is replaced by a layer of liquid water with a low conductivity.

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  1. Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Cryology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chita, 672090, Russia

    G. S. Bordonskiĭ & S. D. Krylov

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Original Russian Text © G.S. Bordonskiĭ, S.D. Krylov, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 80–85.

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Bordonskiĭ, G.S., Krylov, S.D. Electric resistance of water films on the surface of ice near the phase transition temperature. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 331–333 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009040129

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