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It actually expands, instead of contracts, for a few degrees below the freezing point.

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Q: What is unusual about the behavior of water when it freezes?
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Why is it unusual when water freezes and it takes up more room?

It isn't unusual.


What does water do when it freezes that is unusual?

It expands, which reduces its density.


Why is water considered an unusual molecule?

The molecular bonds cause water to expand when it freezes.


What is anomalous behavior of watar?

The anomalous behavior of water refers to the expansion of water when it freezes instead of contracting.


What are some unusual properties of water?

when water freezes, it expands. Most elements contract when frozen.


What are some of the unusual properties of water?

Water is one of the few substances that expands when it freezes. Most things contract as they get colder.


Why does water expand by 10 percent when it freezes?

Its very unusual for a substance to expand when it freezes, water is just odd that way. Its just a property of water, its moleucles expand in the area they take up and take up more space.


How is a lake or river that freezes over helpful to the organisms in the water?

because its deep waters never freezes due anomalous behavior of water and they are being protected


How is a lake or river that freezes ver helpful to the organisms in the water?

Because its deep waters never freeze due anomalous behavior of water


What is the unusual behavior of water as it is heated from 0degrees Celsius to 15 degrees Celsius?

1,000 m


Does water expand?

When it freezes.


Why does a cold bottle of water freeze when it is hit sharply against a counter?

Water is an unusual liquid in that it expands as it freezes. This can cause it to break a glass container as the water content freezes.