Sunday 29 June 2014

Familiar yet strange: Water's 'split personality' revealed by computer model

WATER WORLD
Familiar yet strange: Water's 'split personality' revealed by computer model
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2014 - Seemingly ordinary, water has quite puzzling behavior. Why, for example, does ice float when most liquids crystallize into dense solids that sink? Using a computer model to explore water as it freezes, a team at Princeton University has found that water's weird behaviors may arise from a sort of split personality: at very cold temperatures and above a certain pressure, water may spontaneously sp ... more


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