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Water actually becomes less dense, or expands, when frozen. When liquid water reaches it's freezing point, the water molecules rearrange themselves into a lattice structure. Due to the nature of the water molecules, they arrange themselves in such a way as to make it less dense than it was in it's liquid form, which is why ice floats on top of liquid water.

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Ice expands when it freezes because the water molecules form a crystalline structure that takes up more space than when they were in liquid form. This expansion is what causes ice to be less dense than water and float on its surface.

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water does not shrink at lower temps when it freezes it changes to solid and expands, when heated it expands until the temp. changes it to a gas also known as steam water is the only element that expands when heated or cooled

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Ice does not shrink when it is frozen because it is already frozen. Water expands when it freezes to create ice.

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when water gets frozen it's smaller.

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