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Water is the only liquid known to expand in volume when passing from the liquid state into the solid state called ice. That's why any glass container filled with water or water juice would break if put in a freezer. So do the ice in both poles of the Earth, taking more volume to oceans than the original water volume before freezing. But remember Archimedes law.

add. Silicon, Gallium and Bismuth also share this anomalous expansion as does water!.

A.The normal pattern for most compounds is that as the temperature of the liquid increases, the density decreases as the molecules spread out from each other. As the temperature decreases, the density increases as the molecules become more closely packed. This pattern does not hold true for ice

In liquid water each molecule is hydrogen bonded to approximately 3.4 other water molecules. In ice each each molecule is hydrogen bonded to 4 other molecules.This translates to a more open or expanded structure. The ice structure takes up more volume than the liquid water molecules, hence ice is less dense than liquid water.

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