Dielectric dispersion in water + 2-hydroxypyridine solid mixtures.

The complex electric permittivity was measured in water + 2-hydroxypyridine (2HP) solid mixtures as a function of concentration, temperature and frequency. Just after freezing of diluted mixtures, (mole fraction of 2HP < 0.2) pronounced dielectric dispersion in the MHz region was observed. The dispersion disappears on cooling between -30 and -40 °C in a first-order phase transition. The dispersion was explained in terms of the movement of a guest molecule (2HP) in a clathratelike structure of ice.