2006-12-19 18:59:12 · 6 answers · asked by joelogs 1 in Environment
sorry but that is not clever at all. icebergs are mostly of ice so they just act like ice on water.
2006-12-19 19:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by sukruday 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Same way ice floats, Air molecules within the ice, but icebegrs are denser so Icebergs barely float because ice is just slightly less dense than water. About 90% of an iceberg's volume lies below the surface of the water
2006-12-19 19:09:36 · answer #2 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Icebergs are less dense than water. When water freezes, its density will become lower because Density= mass/ volume. When it freezes, the mass remains but its volume is increases thus making its density less.
Less dense object will float on denser objects.
2006-12-19 20:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by Juni Mccoy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Water expands when it freezes, making the solid form less dense than the liquid form. In addition to that, sea water is even more dense than pure water, so 90% of the ice berg displaces enough water to balance the weight of the entire berg.
2006-12-19 19:19:08 · answer #4 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ice is less dense than water
2006-12-19 19:01:25 · answer #5 · answered by Dashes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryfaqs/f/icefloats.htm
2006-12-19 19:08:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋