Abstract
Structural work on the three modifications of sodium hydroxide is reviewed. The monoclinic and cubic modifications were determined with neutron and X-ray diffraction, respectively. The phase-transition temperatures were determined by specific-heat measurements. The cubic to monoclinic transition is a first-order transition with a freezing of the rotational motion of the OH (and OD) groups. The monoclinic axes a, b and c* tend to be oriented parallel to the original cubic directions [{\bar 1}{\bar 1}2], [1{\bar 1}0] and [ 111], respectively. The orthorhombic to monoclinic transition is a nearly continuous displacive phase transition with a soft acoustic shear mode. The order parameter is the homogeneous shear of the crystal in the a direction. Its temperature dependence is described within Landau theory.
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