Ice | |
Chemical Formula |
H2O |
Species |
Oxides & Hydroxides |
Crystal System |
Hexagonal |
Mohs Scale |
1 |
Specific Gravity |
0.9167 |
Color |
Colourless to white, pale blue to greenish blue in thick layers |
Streak |
White |
Luster |
Vitreous |
Refractive Index |
n = 1.320 n = 1.330 |
Diaphaneity |
Transparent, Translucent |
Fracture |
Conchoidal |
Crystal Habit:Usualyy as snow crystals, in complex six-rayed stellate forms of great variety, flattened . Delicate skeletal forms or hopper-shaped prisms as hoar frost. Lathlike crystals, greartly elongated at times, by crystallization on the surface of water. |