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From: tom@utah-cs.UUCP (Tom Blockovich)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: ice cubes
Message-ID: <5410@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 05:46:47 GMT
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Keywords: float



Everyone seems to agree that ice is less dense than water..ie it expands as it
freezes.  Archimedes concluded that an object is bouyed up by a force equal to
the weight of the water it displaces.  Since an ice cube now displaces more 
water than it weighs, it floats.  That's Archimedes principle.


Tom Blockovich
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