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Glassy water made by very fast cooling shows a small heat-capacity step near 136 K, long taken as its glass transition, and a second step near 116 K was reported in high-density amorphous ice. Whether these steps mark glasses turning into ultraviscous liquids or something else is disputed.
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Hyperquenched glassy water and low-density amorphous ice show a weak calorimetric step near $136\,\mathrm{K}$ at ambient pressure, and pressure-annealed high-density amorphous ice a step near $116\,\mathrm{K}$ (2013). Determine whether each step is a glass transition to a diffusive ultraviscous liquid (LDL or HDL) with translational relaxation time about $1\mathrm{e}2\,\mathrm{s}$, or an orientational or sub-$T_{g}$ relaxation with $T_{g}$ of water higher (near $165\,\mathrm{K}$, as argued from comparison with hyperquenched inorganic glasses in 2004). An answer is a measurement of translational diffusion or viscous flow just above each step.
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Direct measurement of translational diffusion (isotope intermixing, viscous flow, or dielectric response tied to translation) just above 136 K and 116 K, showing liquid-like or glass-like mobility.
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well-posed
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contested
Status note
Two glass transitions were reported in 2013 (Amann-Winkel et al., PNAS, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1311718110) against the 2004 reassignment of $T_g$ near 165 K (Yue and Angell, Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02295).
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