Re: Cracked Block, Continued

Posted by Bob on February 03, 2004 at 10:53:39 from (66.163.134.177):

In Reply to: Cracked Block, Continued posted by Allan on February 03, 2004 at 10:17:11:

A couple of weeks ago, my wife left a 12-pack of pop in the back of our Yukon parked ouside. It has been colder than -40 here.

The cans left in the vehicle, which has not been started, or warmed up in any way, split and blew pop all over. The outside temperature has barely gone above zero, and certainly no where near the thawing point.

Last winter, in -20 temperatures, the furnace failed in my farmhouse (where no one lives). It was out for about 2 days, and several pipes were burst open when I got there, and the toilet was hanging sideways from the supply line due to the water in the bowl freezing and splitting the china base. No thawing involved here, either.

I have always been taught that water expands when it freezes due to the crystal lattice structures of which the ice is formed occuping more space than the liquid form of water.

The theory behind the crystal lattice structure is backed up by the fact that a chunk of ice will float in water. The ice is less dense than the water because the crystal lattice structure of the ice makes a given mass of water occupy more space in the frozen state than it does in the liquid state.

Are you saying this is not true?

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