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Quite simply, fill a tray with water and measure its depth. Now freeze it and measure how thick the solid block is. Having expanded, the thickness should be more than the depth (by about 11%).
Another more graphic way is to fill a small container with a simple shape, like a glass drinking container, with water, then freeze it. The glass will have shattered, and any attempt to fit the ice into an identical container will fail because it is too big.
The simplest thing is simply to observe that ice floats on water.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoPut it in a marked glass container and fill it to a specified mark and then freeze it. Measure the new volume and calculate the % expansion.
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Why the pipes broke during the freezing cold weather?
water expands when frozen.
Water expands as it freezes can you define a coefficient of volume expansion for the freezing force?
The coefficient of the thermal expansion of water is equal to .00021. Water expands by 9% of its volume when it freezes.
How is water a exception to the rule of thermal expansion?
All material contract as they cool down. Water has an exceptional behavior in the range 4 deg C to its freezing point. In this range, water expands as it cools down. That is why ice is lighter than liquid water and can float on top.
How does the thermal property of water differ from other liquids like alcohol when the liquids are cooled from 4 degree to 0 degree?
Water is the only substance that expands as it cools. As water cools from 40C to 00C (the freezing point of water), water becomes a solid, and expands in its volume. The freezing point of alcohol is lower than water, so by simple observation, no change will appear. If you had accurate enough measuring equipment, you would see that the alcohol is taking up less volume.
What happens to water as it frezzes?
It expands.
Why does a cup of water push out when it is freezing?
because the water expands
Why do water pipes often burst in freezing water?
Water EXPANDS as it freezes, hello.
When water is warmed from its freezing temperature to its temperature of maximum density it?
expands
How does water change when it freeze?
As water freezes, it expands. this is one cause of erosion because water moves into cracks in rocks and expands when freezing, breaking it open.
Why is it bad to put a bottle of water in a freezer?
Water expands on freezing, hence will shatter the bottle.
Why the pipes broke during the freezing cold weather?
water expands when frozen.
Water expands as it freezes can you define a coefficient of volume expansion for the freezing force?
The coefficient of the thermal expansion of water is equal to .00021. Water expands by 9% of its volume when it freezes.
How does freezing water weather rocks?
yes it does when water freezes it expands the rocks cracks which he water went inside
When water gets into tiny crackers it can break rock apart this is because when water freezes it?
Water expands when freezing.
Can you cite some daily experience that will prove that water expands on freezing?
Sure; fill a garden hose or even a metal pipe with water. make sure each end is capped so that no water can escape. Freeze The device that contains the water will burst from the expansion.
How does water expands when it's frozen?
This is a strange phenomenon explained by the modification of the chemical structure of water during freezing.
Water pipes some times burst during severe wintres in cold countries?
water expands on freezing
