[DOC] [TLE] Water's States: Gas, Liquid, and Solid - Boundless [PAR] Solid water, or ice, is less dense than liquid water. ... The low density of ice , an 
anomaly, causes it to float at the surface of liquid water, such as an iceberg or the
... [DOC] [TLE] Why Does Ice Float? - Chemistry - About.com [PAR] Learn about hydrogen bonding and density to understand why ice floats. ... Then, 
let's examine why ice floats on top of liquid water, instead of sinking to the ... On 
the other hand, most substances are most dense in their solid (frozen) state than 
in their liquid ... The heavier water displaces the lighter ice, so ice floats to the top. [DOC] [TLE] Unusual Properties of Water - Chemistry LibreTexts [PAR] Mar 13, 2015 ... Because water seems so ubiquitous, many people are unaware of the ... and 
Vapor Pressure; Viscosity and Cohesion; Solid State; Liquid State; Gas State ... 
are usually more viscous than liquids with weak intermolecular interactions. ... If 
ice was not able to float, the lake would freeze from the bottom up... [DOC] [TLE] Water: the weirdest liquid on the planet | Science | The Guardian [PAR] May 11, 2015 ... H20 is so common and so familiar that it is mundane, yet the more we ... Ice floats 
because water expands when it freezes. ... example of the strange phenomenon 
of a solid floating on its liquid. ... tend to stay closer together than the molecules in 
other liquids. ... And if it wasn't so odd, you wouldn't be here. [DOC] [TLE] H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: The Chemistry of ... [PAR] Ice Floats. That's not weird.... is it? That's very weird. The solid state of most things 
are much denser than the liquid state and therefore sink. Usually what... [DOC] [TLE] Reasons To Believe : Water: Designed for Life, Part 3 (of 7) [PAR] May 27, 2013 ... However, water is virtually unique in that solid ice is less dense than liquid water. 
... Time's perspective has made this incident funny, but it wasn't so humorous ... 
liquid water forms small ice-like clumps with a lower density than the ... While this 
odd behavior may seem inconsequential, it actually plays a key... [DOC] [TLE] Hydrogen bonds: why life needs water - Scientific American Blog ... [PAR] Aug 2, 2011 ... The solid form floats on the liquid form. ... Why does water have so many strange 
and wonderful properties? ... This is why life on earth is water based rather than, 
say, hydrogen ... These hydrogen bonds also affect the solid structure of water - 
the bonds become more rigid as water freezes, giving ice a more... [DOC] [TLE] Properties and anomalies of water, from chemistry to physics ... [PAR] Water: the odd case around us ... Density of the solid state compared with the 
liquid state ... From here one can understand the reason why the ice floats on the 
water, ... a boiling point lower than 100C and a correspondent melting point 
lower than ... So doing, we overcome the energy gap from room temperature to 
boiling... [DOC] [TLE] Familiar yet strange: Water's 'split personality' revealed by computer ... [PAR] Jun 24, 2014 ... Using a computer model to explore water as it freezes, a team at ... many of 
water's odd properties  not just floating ice but also water's high ... falls further, 
the low-density regions win out, becoming so prevalent that they take over the 
mixture and freeze into a solid that is less dense than the original liquid. [DOC] [TLE] Ans_PS12_121 F15.pdf [PAR] Identification of Interparticle Forces, and Properties that Correlate with Them .... 
than water, which is a substance composed of molecules that form .... so low for 
molecular solids and so high for covalent network solids? ..... would freeze over, 
but since it floats, the ice layer actually insulates the liquid water beneath it so 
that... [DOC] [TLE] THE UNIQUENESS OF WATER "Water is ... - Creation Concepts [PAR]

Question: Oddly, this property is lower in solid than in liquid water, so ice floats
Answer: density