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To: Prokopton

Why not? Water shrinks as it freezes, wouldn't the volumn increase as it melts?


65 posted on 10/17/2005 2:45:10 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Don't quag Miers!!!!)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
Water shrinks as it freezes

Water expands as it freezes. Thats why roads up north get mondo cracks in the winter - liquid water fills cracks and the force of the expanding ice expands small cracks into big ones. Place a bottle of water, capped, in the freezer and check it out after a few hours. Use a plastic bottle.

84 posted on 10/17/2005 6:51:50 PM PDT by corkoman (Overhyped)
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