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don't sell that seaside property just yet
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<blockquote data-quote="wawazat" data-source="post: 3950132" data-attributes="member: 35603"><p>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.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/ice/activities/ice_action/iceberg/#:~:text=Actually%2C%20about%2010%25%2C%20or,which%20is%20why%20it%20floats!" target="_blank">School Iceberg Experiment</a></p><p></p><p>If the iceberg actually extends all the way to the sea floor, then it is being propped up and that would certainly change what happens as it melts. I would imagine this is the issue we are facing here and probably what you were alluding to by stacking ice on top of what would free float in the glass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wawazat, post: 3950132, member: 35603"] 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. [URL='https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/ice/activities/ice_action/iceberg/#:~:text=Actually%2C%20about%2010%25%2C%20or,which%20is%20why%20it%20floats!']School Iceberg Experiment[/URL] If the iceberg actually extends all the way to the sea floor, then it is being propped up and that would certainly change what happens as it melts. I would imagine this is the issue we are facing here and probably what you were alluding to by stacking ice on top of what would free float in the glass. [/QUOTE]
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