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Does water float [20 characters]?
Random, I know. But a friend of mine asked me this, just wondering.
Thanks in advance!
25 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Actually water can "float" on water. Cold arctic salt water sinks and flows all the way to the equator. It is near freezing at any great depth in the ocean and there is so little mixing that it takes about a century for the water to cycle to the equator and rise to be heated and return to the arctic. Therefore warm water floats on colder denser water. The fresh water discharged from the Amazon river floats on the denser salt water of the ocean and even a hundred miles off shore you bring up fresh water from the surface. Because of evaporation in the Mediterranean Sea the salt water is denser. the lighter (less salty) water of the ocean flows on the surface into the Mediterranean Sea at the strait of Gibraltar to make up for evaporation and denser (saltier) water flows out on the bottom of the channel if there is excessive rain. Rain water will dilute sea water on the ocean surface and float until mixed by wave action. The warm gulf stream floats above the colder, denser deeper water in the Atlantic. A puddle of water floats on ice unless it finds a hole to drain through. Frozen water (ice) floats on fresh or sea water. Icebergs (ice mountains!) float because ice is less dense and they are made of fresh water from glaciers too. Good question.
- 5 years ago
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- psychoticgeniusLv 61 decade ago
Hot water will "float" on top of cold water.
And of course frozen water known as ice floats on water.
So whichever way you look at it the answer is yes!
- Kade Supernova™Lv 71 decade ago
Not really. Water's just there. Things with buoyancy float and oil kind of "floats" on water.
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- DaydreamerLv 61 decade ago
In a way, yes. The particles in a liquid are further apart than those in a solid.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It will float in something like oil cuz its dense
- Greg MacquarieLv 61 decade ago
Sweetie baby, no. The molecules in water just merge with any other water molecules that you add.