L. Desgranges et al., STRUCTURAL AND THERMODYNAMIC EVIDENCE OF A CHANGE IN THERMAL MOTION OF HYDROGEN-ATOMS IN CA(OH)(2) AT LOW-TEMPERATURE, Journal of physics and chemistry of solids, 55(2), 1994, pp. 161-166
Accurate measurements of lattice parameters and heat capacity of Ca(OH
,) were performed in the temperature ranges 8-450 K and 12-300 K, resp
ectively. No apparent phase transition was evident but thermal expansi
on and heat capacity anomalies were detected above about 180 K. Based
on structural and NMR results, we have attributed these anomalies to a
change in the thermal motion of hydrogen atoms; namely, that above 18
0 K OH-ions have a reorientational motion between three equivalent ori
entations.