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Re: Density of water.



At 23:51 01 12 2001 , you wrote:
Right, Hewitt plots (ordinate) the volumne of one gram of water instead of the
inverse. No matter, he's plotting water not ice. Ice (normal near zero C
[ice I]) 917 kg / m^3 or sg ~ .92 Water @ 100 C is 1.04 mL / g or sg 0.96 So
ice floats as per your experience (and mine).

Bernard, you seem to be missing the essential point -- the fact
that makes life possible! Water at freezing is less dense than water at
4C therefore water freezes on the _surface_ of the body of water.

Jim Green
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