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Water to Ice
Title: Water to Ice
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 536 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Water to Ice
WATER TURNS TO ICE
Water is perhaps the most abundant liquid known to man. It is needed to sustain the lives of all living things and covers nearly three quarters of the earths surface. It is a molecule made up of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H O). Both hydrogens are bonded to the one oxygen atom covalently.
At room temperature it is a liquid. At temperatures of over 100°C it is a …showed first 75 words of 536 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 536 total…and the individual molecules barely move atall. They just vibrate in their fixed positions. Because the H-bonds have formed between each molecule, the molecules are actually further away from each other than they were in the liquid form (a rare property of any substance). This means that the solid form of water is actually less dense than the liquid. This solid state of water will float on the liquid form. It is known as ice.
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