Re: Water near freezing point: Why not huge viscosity?

In sci.physics, Sanny
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wrote
on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 24, 9:07 pm, Joris Dolderer <st...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
More precisely: Shouldn't viscosity strive to infinity when the
temperature approaches the freezing point, because the freezing of water
would be rather a process than an abrupt phenomenon because there are
simply those clusters getting bigger and bigger and eventually connecting
to one single, huge cluster?

Yes when it solidifies Viscosity is infinite.

Pedant Point: While viscosity of frozen water is very high, I'm not
sure it's infinite; glaciers flow. Then again, an alternate
explanation is that pressure lowers the melting point, so that the
glacial layers slide on a thin boundary layer of liquid water.

Prior to that it is H20
in Liquid state So same Viscosity as that of water. may be a slight
difference with change in temperature.

Bye
Sanny

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