01 Assignment weekly - Attempt 1
Question 4
Part A
What role does secondary bonding play in our common observation that water expands upon freezing?
Match the words in the left column to the appropriate blanks in the sentences on the right.
the efficiently packed structure
Upon freezing, the water molecules
less
more
become aligned
the open structure
become more efficiently
packed
Therefore,
of the frozen state is
dense than the random packing of H2O molecules in the liquid state.