April 21, 2023
When Anders Celsius developed the Celsius scale for temperature, he originally set 100 degrees as the melting point of snow and 0 degrees as the point when water boils. Later it was flipped to its current position.
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Why Does Water Freeze from the Top Down?
We drink water, we swim in it, we wash with it, and we cool things down with it. Because water is so common, many of us fail to notice just how strange it is compared to other substances. When we plop an ice cube or two into our drink during the warmer months, we watch it float above the liquid in
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