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Old 01-23-2007, 08:27 PM  
aico
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays View Post
your comments assume ice is not in the water when it melts... his assume ice is floating in the water when it melts.
No, I assume the ice is in the water. Just because the "sea level" in the glass goes down, does not mean the volume is not going up. The area that the Ice is displacing in the water is not part of the water's volume, that's why it's called displaced, when the ice melts, the ice loses part of it's volume displaces less, and the water gains volume.
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