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Why do you think ice occupies more volume than the same mass of water?

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Bitan Chakraborty ·

More void space in Ice provides it with a larger volume than equal mass of water.

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Abhas Agarwal ·

because when ice is formed it is cage like structure and air is filled in it hence it occupies more volume than the same mass of water

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Soumyabrata Mondal ·

Ice has a highly ordered three dimensional hydrogen bonded structure.

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Soumyabrata Mondal ·

each oxygen atom is surrounded tetrahedrally by four other oxygen atoms at a distance of 276 pm.

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Sayan Sinha ·

But why does the H-bond in water not strong enough to keep the molecules far away? Is it due to their kinetic energy? Please explain.

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