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256bits replied to the thread Undergrad Is Water's Volume Expansion Upon Freezing an Intrinsic Property?.the answers that you have received are coming from the belief that your experiment is as you say it is and nothing else. There is no... -
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Good point. That makes the measurement of weight that others have recommended more important I can't judge the volume of the collapsed... -
256bits replied to the thread Undergrad Is Water's Volume Expansion Upon Freezing an Intrinsic Property?.The water can dissolve a quantity of gas based upon its temperature and the external pressure. If the pressure in the liquid is... -
256bits replied to the thread Undergrad Is Water's Volume Expansion Upon Freezing an Intrinsic Property?.The water in the pipe freezes from the wall inwards, so there is a cavity of liquid surrounded by ice. As long as the water does not... -
256bits replied to the thread Undergrad Is Water's Volume Expansion Upon Freezing an Intrinsic Property?.Quite sure the wall thickness of a plastic bottle is not uniform as it is blown plastic. The 'oval' shape of the frozen water bottle... -
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I'd be fairly sure that the lower temperature caused the air pressure to decrease in the bottle, and that caused the sides of the bottle... -
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border effects goes like L, area goes as L^2 so the inperfect packing error is negligible on ocean scale -
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My previous answer may have been too short. The coastline effect gives a correction that scales with coastline length (L), whereas the... -
256bits replied to the thread Collection of Science Jokes P2.That is frigin hilarious! No doubt I will still be chuckling several days from now. May we have found the actual reason for tinnitus...