Why Does Water Expand When It Becomes Ice? |⚛

It's that time of year again. When temperatures in the Northern hemisphere drop. And for most, it gets below freezing. When most substances get cold and freeze, the resulting solid is smaller than it was as a liquid due to it being colder. However, you've probably noticed when water freezes and becomes ice, that the ice usually gets a large bump on the top, or if it's in the sealed container, cracks it. This is because water expands its volume almost nine percent instead of shrinking when it freezes. Why does it do that and why would earth probably be lifeless if it didn't? Let me explain why.

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