When water turns to ice, the ice takes up more volume than does water. This is also why ice floats. Water is one of very few things that expand when colder.
Interestingly enough, ice is not a true solid. It has no crystalline structure. It is a "supercooled liquid" like glass. Ice can flow, slowly, as in glaciers. Glass flows as well, but takes centuries. Ancient stained-glass windows have bits of glass in them that are measurably thicker towards the bottom, as they have flowed downwards, slightly.
When water freezes and becomes a solid the molecules become arranged in a certain pettern called a crystal lattice. In this arrangement the molecules are father away from each other and the ice is bigger. Because the molecules are farthe apart the ice is less dense than the water.
Because ice is a frozen solid and water is not.
This is because the volume of water increases slightly when it freezes. According to the kinetic particle theory liquids particles are spaced slightly further apart than in solids.
ice is less dense than water
The refractive index of a certain material increases with its density. The refractive index of ice is less because it has a lower density than liquid water.
Ice has about 91.5% of the density of water. It floats because it is less dense than water.
The other properties of ice are water a liquid state and water vapor a gas state. So from what I've just said I think you can figure the rest out.
Ice has a LOWER density than water as ice FLOATS in water!!!!!!! Upon freezing water to form ice, expansion occurs thus more volume and surface area but the same weight.
Because ice is a frozen solid and water is not.
The density of ice is lower than the density of water; ice float on water.
no. Density of ice is more than of water...we can understand from ice sinking in water drinks... Edited by Dr.J. : How is it possible for the density of ice to be more (greater) than that of liquid water if ice FLOATS on lakes and rivers? Clearly, the density of ice is LESS than that of liquid water.
Water has a greater density than ice.
Ice is less dense than liquid water.
Ice is less dense than liquid water.
The density of ice is lower than the density of water.
ice floating on top of water because water has more density than ice.
It tells you that the ice is less dense than the water.
Water has higher density than ice. That is why ice floats on water.
Water floats when it is in the solid phase, called ice. Ice floats because the density of ice is less than the density of water.
less than that of water