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Anonymous Fri 26 Mar 15:03:05 2021 No.12885852 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12885868 >>12885958

Why is water in it's solid state, less dense than it's liquid state? Did it get blessed by witches?

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Anonymous Fri 26 Mar 2021 15:09:32 No.12885868 Report

Quoted By: >>12885896

>>12885852
Because it expands due to it's unique cristalline structure when solid.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Mar 2021 15:17:46 No.12885896 Report

Quoted By: >>12885916 >>12885942

>>12885868
>unique
Wouldn't everything water-like do the same? SH2

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Anonymous Fri 26 Mar 2021 15:22:37 No.12885916 Report

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>>12885896
I'm not a chemist, I wouldn't know, but I'm quite sure you need hydrogen bonds, so if sulphur can make those I suppose that could work.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Mar 2021 15:29:51 No.12885942 Report

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>>12885896
Sulfur isn't polar enough to form hydrogen bonds, only F, N, and O can do it.

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Anonymous Fri 26 Mar 2021 15:33:20 No.12885958 Report

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>>12885852
Water has a high heat capacity, so it cools slowly, and things which cool slowly have the time to arrange themselves in an energy-minimal lattice. I.e., a crystal

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