All that really needs to be remembered is that too much water/ice makes
for a diluted Jack and water. If you are sitting in a bar that is 4
degrees Celsius, get up and move before your drink freezes in your hand.
Larry Dickstein
bugide@juno.com
There is no problem that cannot be solved
with either a checkbook or high explosives.
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997 16:10:07 -0600 (CST) "J. Neil Doane"
<root@yeah.indstate.edu> writes:
>On Mon, 1 Dec 1997 DANMAS@aol.com wrote:
>
>> The key to this cunundrum is your statement "When water freezes and
>*turns*
>> to ice..." (emphasis mine). Water and ice are two different things.
>When
>> water, a liquid, freezes, the molecules re-arrange themselves into a
>> crystaline structure, a solid. Simply put, the molecules in the
>solid ice are
>> spaced further apart than the molecules in liquid water.
>
>After my authoritative-sounding commentary on how water is most dense
>at 4
>degrees celsius (and ice expands and your dog's bowl is busted) is
>refuted
>by Dan's statement here, I made a call to a professor of chemistry
>friend
>of mine and lo...
> Dan's right! (*ack!*) :P
>
>(Well...mostly. The statement below:
>
>> Water expands when heated and contracts when cooled.
>
>Is true other than for those 4 small degrees between 4 degrees Celsius
>and
>0 degrees Celsius, when water contracts when heated and expands when
>cooled.) _Water_ is most dense at 4 degrees Celsius...ice's volume is
>effected little by temperature...or so I am told. As Dan said, the
>change
>to a crystaline structure (as my friend says "a crystaline
>lattice") apparently does the damage and expands H20 to break the tub
>(or
>blow the blockplugs.)
>
>I bow to the mighty Dan. :)
>
>...now I just need to find that damned high school chemistry
>teacher.Grr...
>
>neil doane
>
>
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