Thats what I never understood on this stuff. Ice cubes in a water glass full of water float leaving the same volume above the water that it will lose as it melts. Water occupies more space as a solid than as a liquid. I could be oversimplifying the glacier issue, but it is a pretty simple experiment from school comparing phases changes.NO way a tiny piece of ice or land dropped into the huge ocean is going to raise the level significantly.
Sorry i am not buying into this at all.
As much as I would like to see California under water it's not happening.
Thats what I never understood on this stuff. Ice cubes in a water glass full of water float leaving the same volume above the water that it will lose as it melts. Water occupies more space as a solid than as a liquid. I could be oversimplifying the glacier issue, but it is a pretty simple experiment from school comparing phases changes.
I guess the container was less important in how I was thinking about it. A free floating piece of ice is never fully submerged without some outside force. The density of the ice will determine how much of it is above the surface of the water which is also how the balance of the ice cube displacing the same amount of water as its liquid equivalent would. When the water goes from solid to liquid, its density increases which means the volume it displaces decreases.Maybe it is because most ice cubes in a glass aren't showing above the surface of the water? Once the ice cube drops fully into the water, it won't rise. Fill a glass with ice but leave one or two cubes sitting on top and see what happens.
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