That means
frozen water floats on liquid water — not the case for almost any other substance.
Because going through 4 °C to lower temperatures water gets dense enough to sink and doesn't freeze,
freezing water floats, so not independent of density and pressure and as these are due to gravity, not independent of that either.
Not exact matches
Honesty requires us to admit that our total knowledge of the world leads us to insist that the only time ax heads
float (II Kings 6:1 - 7) or people walk on
water (Mark 6:47 - 52) is when it is
frozen.
7In a large pot of boiling salted
water, cook gnocchi from
frozen for about 8 minutes or until they
float to the top and are tender throughout.
Cook gnocchi in a large pot of boiling salted
water, stirring occasionally, until gnocchi
float to the surface, about 2 minutes (slightly longer if
frozen).
Working in 3 batches, cook gnocchi in a large pot of simmering lightly salted
water until doubled in size and they
float to the top, about 3 minutes (a minute or so more if
frozen).
The geometry is the reason icebergs
float, and helps explain why bodies of
water don't
freeze solid from the bottom up, allowing aquatic life to survive winters.
Glaciers deliver that ice from the inner reaches of the continent to the ocean, where massive
frozen shelves
float atop the
water.
Water molecules
floating freely in a vapor begin to arrange themselves into a crystalline solid when the temperature drops below
freezing.
«The randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard
water ice
floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of
frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.»
Water has many unusual properties, such as its solid form, ice, being able to float in liquid water, and they get weirder below its freezing p
Water has many unusual properties, such as its solid form, ice, being able to
float in liquid
water, and they get weirder below its freezing p
water, and they get weirder below its
freezing point.
Start with coconut
water or coconut / almond milk (really, whatever
floats your boat), add in a
frozen superfood pack or two, a banana, and your fruit of choice.
Farrow's second Émile Cinq - Mars novel opens with a stunning sequence in which the Montreal police detective finds a body submerged in
water beneath a
frozen lake, a favorite haunt of ice fisherman: «The circular ice hole was partially filled with
water, and a few inches below the surface
floated a human head, the long hair beaded with ice, the face plunged down into the frigid lake.»
Travel experts Off the Map Travel and the team behind the famous Treehotel in Sweden will launch a new
floating hotel and spa that
freezes into the ice of the Lule River in the winter and
floats on top of the
water in the summer.
A massive rookery of penguins shuffles across a
frozen shore; a pod of whales glides through frigid
waters; dramatic landscapes
float off in the distance — welcome to Antarctica.
These puzzles generally require you to use your abilities to manipulate items within the shrine such as
freezing water to be able to access a
floating ball and then using your magnetic powers in order to move the ball with a large metal dish to access a trigger.
Of course, during winter as the
water freezes on the surface, the resulting sea - ice is less dense, so it
floats.
This is why ice (
frozen water at 0 °C or less)
floats!
Sea - ice biome - The biome formed by all marine organisms living within or on the
floating sea ice (
frozen sea
water) of the polar oceans.
Melting of sea ice has no impact on sea level —
water or ice that is already
floating does not change the sea level by melting /
freezing.
As the Antarctic sea ice reached record levels, scientists
floated several hypotheses, including possible changes in the ozone hole over Antarctica, or increased amounts of fresh
water — which
freezes more easily — on the surface of the ocean around Antarctica.
Meanwhile, fewer than a dozen small ice shelves
floating on «warm»
waters (seawater only a few degrees above the
freezing point) produced half of the total melt
water during the same period.