A beaker of 50cm3 is kept in a freezer and made into solid ice.The ice has melted at room temperature and we have made sure that no evaporation takes place. But when we check the volume of the water the result is different( 46cm3). Why is it so?
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Well this is a very much an application base question.
One thing you must understand is that water expand when it turns to ice.
This due to the anomalous property of water
The anomalous properties of water are those where the behavior of liquid water is quite different from what is found with other liquids .No other material is commonly found as solid, liquid and gas.d Frozen water (ice) also shows anomalies when compared with other solids. Although it is an apparently simple molecule
Okay so going into the fomulae
For many solids, expansion is directly proportional to temperature change.
Areas expand twice as much as lengths do
Volumes expand three times as much as lengths do.