Re: Question, what do things do when they freeze?

In article <f0m1io$p8m$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Landy wrote:
AFAIK, water is the only compound or element that has lower density in its
solid phase.

ISTR there was a bit of hooplah a year or two ago with the
announcement of a small range of other compounds with similarly anomalous
phase diagrams. Barium tungstates if I recall correctly. There's a few
organics that behave similarly too, I think.
Water is certainly the simplest compound with such behaviour.

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Aidan Karley, FGS,
Aberdeen, Scotland
A light wave is more like a crime wave than a water wave.

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