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Originally posted by bdjuf
my friend and I are having a discussion about Water
we are trying to find out the behaviour of the temperature of water depending of the depth in the polar waters....
so... when there is a sheet of ice on top of the water, how does the temperature of water vary as we go deeper and deeper starting from the top?
thanx 
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The sheet of ice is on TOP.. so ofcourse as you go deeper, the temperature is going to vary, simply because the deeper layers are not exposed to the ice like the top sheet of water..
Since water consists of h2o molecules, the deeper molecules are going to have more pressure on them, that might have something to do with the variation of temperature also. I think the molecules on the top would have more space to move around, which doesn't help them entrap any sort of heat.. compared to the water molecules on the bottom which are being pressured upon from all sides and cant move as freely as the top ones
That's the only explanation that i would think of.. maybe there's a bit more to it than i understand right now