Tuesday 20 October 2015

phase transition - Besides water, which substances are less dense as solids than as liquids?



You can read everywhere about water's extraordinary property of expanding when frozen, thus the reason ice floats on liquid water.


What other substances do this? There are claims of mercury, silica, germanium, bismuth, and antimony, but I've had trouble tracking down the data to back these up.




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