water expands?....................
By jimkarry69
@jimkarry69 (92)
India
July 22, 2009 6:24am CST
......hi frnds recently i known that water expands at a lower temperatures.................do you belive in that.i know that water has a property of bocoming into a solid(ice) and vapour(steam). .......................does any one know at what temperature water expands..........
2 responses
@lornasis (121)
• Philippines
22 Jul 09
Yes, it does. When water turns to ice, the molecules rearrange themselves into a structure that occupies more space than when it is in its liquid state. That is why frozen water in plastic bottles deform the bottles that they are in. Of course, when they turn into vapor, water occupies even more space as the molecules move farther apart.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
22 Jul 09
Hi jimkarry, I have no idea of my freezer tempratuare but often freeze bottles of water in it to take outside with me on hot days. If the bottle is full the water does expand so much that it explodes out of the bottle when uncapped. So indeed I do believe that water does expand at lower tempratures. It does not do it in the fridge by the way, only the freezer.
