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. 2015 Jun 1;15(6):430–441. doi: 10.1089/ast.2015.1306

Table 3.

Physical Properties of Water Ice Ih

  Symbol Unit Value
Densitya ρ kg m−3 920
Specific heata Cp J K−1 kg−1 7.037T+185.0
Thermal conductivitya k W m−2 488.12/T+0.4685
Thermal expansion coefficienta a K−1 3.0×(2.5×10−7T−1.25×10−5)
Surface gravity acceleration g m s−2 1.32
Latent heata L kJ kg−1 284
Melting temperature at P=0b Tm0 K 271.15
Slope of melting temperatureb dTm/dP 10−7 K Pa−1 −1.063
a

Hobbs (1974).

b

Sotin et al. (1998).