Re: Density of water.

[Matt Jusinski <mjusinski@YAHOO.COM>]

Hello all, this thread reminds me of a sci-fi short
story I read where someone invented a catalysis that
prevented the 4 degree C expansion of water.  As the
story goes the stuff was used widely and over the
years accumulated in the oceans.  Some other things
happened to amplify the catalyst (I don't recall), but
suddenly ice bergs started to sink instead of float.
The Great Lakes became blocks of ice with a layer of
meltwater on top. The oceans went the same way.
Weather as we know it didn't work any more. Everybody
died.

I think this property of water may be a good thing.

Regards,
Matt Jusinski, Morris Knolls HS, Rockaway, NJ


> > devastating to temperate (and artic) zone aquatic
> life and therefore to the
> > diversity of aquatic life, but unless one can cite
> evidence of sustained sub

 gradient, and a circulation, so that icing would
> be postponed perhaps
> > >  banished from significant bodies of water....
> > >
> > >  This does not seem specially lethal to life,
> when I consider the life that
> > >  thrives
> > >  in sulphide springs at great depths.


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