Re: No LBC content/ was: driving questions / now: ice gets bigger than water (fwd)

["J. Neil Doane" <root@yeah.indstate.edu>]

>go to check on it some cold December morn: the water contracted as it
>cooled and since it was liquid, the water level just went down...but then
>it reached 4 degrees C and froze.  

Actually, sorry about that, let me clarify that sentence.  It didn't
freeze at 4 degrees, it was _most dense_ at 4 degrees.  It started to
expand at that point, the water level going up again...then it froze when
it hit 0 degrees Centigrade.  THEN:


>As a solid, it continued to expand, but
>as a solid, it expanded in all three dimensions at once and eventually
>busted the pail.  

sorry, :)

neil doane