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\nWater is a special substance for several reasons, and you may have noticed an important one right in your cold drink: ice. Solid ice floats in liquid water, which isn't true for most substances. But why? George Zaidan and Charles Morton...\nWater is a special substance for several reasons, and you may have noticed an important one right in your cold drink: ice. Solid ice floats in liquid water, which isn't true for most substances. But why? George Zaidan and Charles Morton explain the science behind how how hydrogen bonds keep the ice in your glass (and the polar ice caps) afloat.\n
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2013
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kinetic energy, energy, water, molecules, cubes, substances, temperature, space, atoms
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physical science, ice tea, hydrogen bond, hydrogen atom, solid water, water molecule, liquid water, liquid, life, drop, bonds, fact, dense, made, bend, stretch, spin, interaction, shared, unequally, break, 4 degrees
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