Does water float?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Can Water Float On Water

Answer 3

This question is somewhat subjective, depending on the scale that you wish to observe this. But maybe this will help, obviously something floating on something else is based upon density. Warmer water would be less dense than colder water and "float" on top per-say. Also in an estuary, the Cheasapeake Bay is a good example. The ocean's salt water doesn't completely mix with the fresh water that is emptying into it and creates a brackish layer that tends to shows layers of differentiation. Thus layers of "floating" I hope that this helps. Oh and like once before mentioned, when frozen. (Thank goodness for all the fishes.)

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It's all about surface tension.
Wtaer might float on another liquid , depending on the characteristics involved.
Petroleum products normally float on water., break the surface tensions (ability of molecules to attract each other ) and they mix and form an emulsion.

Answer 6

Water CAN float on a liquid denser than it is. Therefore water can float on mercury because water's density is 1gm/cm^3 while mercury's is 13.6 g/cm^3.

Liquid pressure=hdg where:
h-eight
d-ensity of liquid
g-acceleartion due to gravity(MKS=9.8 gm/m^3; CGS=980 gm/cm^3?

thus in a height of 10 m water pressure is
(10)(1 gm/cm^3)(980 gm/cm^3)
=9800 Pa

while mercury's pressure is
(10)(13.6)(980 gm/cm^3)
=133280 Pa

so mercury exerts more pressure.

Answer 7

It is an incomplete question. You need to specify, does water float on "some other liquid"?

Water will float if the other liquid is heavier than water, for example mercury.

Oil is lighter than water in density. Hence oil will float on water.

I hope my reply is enlightening enough for oyu to award me the 10 points.

Answer 8

water can float durhhhhh haha jk but yes It can

Answer 9

It does flow and also float on earth in liquid form, on air in vapours form and on its liquid form as a solid. It floats in all its forms.

Answer 10

YES IT DOES !!!
Highly oxygenated water (i.e. ice) floats on less oxygenated water...
...waves are more oxygenated than deep sea water, hence they can always be seen on the surface of any body of water !!!
...steam (i.e. water vapor) is the most oxygenated, hence we can see it FLOAT in the sky in the form of clouds !!!