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IN connexion with a recent letter1 which describes these forms, it should be noted that the rule of successive states2 would predict the preferential crystallization of the least stable solid state, in the absence of nuclei.
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UBBELOHDE, A. Metastable Forms of Ice Produced by Super-cooled Water. Nature 157, 625 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157625a0
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