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Why ice is a crystalline compound?


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Crystalline compound

  • Crystalline compounds, such as ice particles or water molecules, are composed of particles or molecules that are arranged in a particular order to produce an ordered structure known as a crystalline compound.

Ice

  • Ice is formed when water solidifies.
  • Solidification is the term for this process.
  • Because water molecules are grouped in long-range orderly organisation, which ultimately leads to cage-like structure, the generated ice is a crystalline substance.
  • The cage-like structure of ice is as follows:-

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