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1. Starting with sentence construction, spelling and grammar (no physics):

All particles are the same type, they are just in a different state. So in ice they are solid.

2. Adding water specific chemistry, and a beginning of some (macro-) physics:

Whatever phase of water - solid, liquid, gas - one is discussing, I believe that the water molecules have the same chemical construction. viz. one oxygen atom linked with two hydrogen atoms.

In different phases, the forces acting between these molecules are different, if only due to different mean distances between the molecules. In ice the mean position over time of each molecule does not change (although at temperatures above zero, its thermal energy will manifest itself in a movement of the molecule about its mean position.

3. Adding a bit more macro-physics:

Whatever phase of water - solid, liquid, gas - one is discussing, each water molecules have the same chemical construction. viz. one oxygen atom linked with two hydrogen atoms.

In different phases, the links between these molecules are different. In ice the mean position over time of each molecule does not change. Each molecule vibrates around a more or less fixed point determined by the mean positions of the other water molecules, especially the nearby ones, which as a first approximation, are fixed.

This is not the case for e.g. the gaseous state, where, owing to the much lower density, each molecule travels (relatively) quite a distance on average before its trajectory is significantly modified as a result of translational forces exerted between the molecules, as they might in a weaker way by the 'pull' of gravity.

In an ice crystal, the molecules are kept in place within a geometrically regular lattice that forms owing to the electrical and magnetic fields exerted by each molecule. I think. Each molecule is pushed (and twisted?) into a region and axial attitude where the fields exerted by the surrounding molecules are more toward a minimum than a maximum.

4. Approaching closer to basics?:

What do you mean by 'particles'?

At the macroscopic level, you might be meaning 'What crystals are in an ice cube?'. Answer: ice crystals (possibly one big one if grown perfectly [there is no such thing as perfection on this earth]. I would however first check if that could be fitted into a perfect cube).

At the levels of smaller entities, if, as I suspect, there are no such things as particles at the level of molecules and smaller - just bundles of waves, then your answer should be 'none', in the same sense as there are no 'particles' as such in anything or anywhere in this Universe I imagine.

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