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Figure 2

From: Damage due to ice crystallization

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(a) Measured glass temperature of 2 containers. In blue, a sample that exhibited supercooling (\(\Delta T \approx 6^\circ C\)) whereas the green sample did not. The occurrence of supercooling goes hand in hand with dendritic crystallization, as indicated by an asterisk. (b) Magnified view of the middle image of the panel in Fig. (a), at the moment of complete meniscus freezing. The difference in the amount of entrapped air bubbles is clearly visible at the bottom of the liquid inclusions. The sample in the green frame shows transparent bulk ice, whereas the sample in the blue frame, which exhibited dendritic crystallization contains numerous entrapped air bubbles.

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