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snowballsdeepnothing floats , everything sits on top of something denser then whats below it, all the way to the core. water will "float" on top of anything denser then it, so i guess you could say a single drop of water can float on a rock. so yes water floats but so does everything else
PULLfalse.
ice is less dense than water but still floats
PULLfalse.
ice is less dense than water but still floats
Railersailerwater would float if you put some mercury in it
zzzskizzzThe fuck? yes water floats on top of whatever you poor it into.
PULLfalse.
ice is less dense than water but still floats
snowballsdeepnothing floats , everything sits on top of something denser then whats below it, all the way to the core. water will "float" on top of anything denser then it, so i guess you could say a single drop of water can float on a rock. so yes water floats but so does everything else
BeeRadLike if you pour water into a glass...is the water floating on top of the glass?...
.FRY.no it's sitting inside the glass
BeeRadLike if you pour water into a glass...is the water floating on top of the glass?...
Food_Stampsdoes water float on sand?
ever hear of acoustic levitation?
snowballsdeepsand is pretty much very very tiny rocks. so if you go down to a extremely small scale and try to balance a water molecule on top of one grain of sand then yes it will float on it.
and no i didn't until now, shits so cool but that still relates back to physics were the air molecules are acting upon say water to push it into a sort of floating state. The process relies on of the properties of sound waves, especially intense sound waves traveling through a fluid usually a gas (air) to balance the force of gravity. so virtually it is floating as it would in space. Science bitch!
snowballsdeepsand is pretty much very very tiny rocks. so if you go down to a extremely small scale and try to balance a water molecule on top of one grain of sand then yes it will float on it
blondie.No. Let's just end this now.
Floating is the phenomenon that occurs when buoyancy and gravity forces balance each other. You can only float things in liquids, because "sand" or "glasses" have no buoyant force. If you put something on sand and it holds it (theoretically), it is the normal force that balances gravity.
To answer the question in the OP (and to reference a post above), water in the form of clouds does float IN AIR, another fluid. Water doesn't float on itself - it technically can't, because the buoyant force is created from differences in density (as previously mentioned), and therefore is not present in a system of only water.
BeeRadBut can you prove it
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El_Barto.Different temperatures of water have different densities. Warmer water near the surface of a lake is then floating on colder water near the bottom. Same substance, different density, water floats on water. You lose chemistry, back of the class
El_Barto.Different temperatures of water have different densities. Warmer water near the surface of a lake is then floating on colder water near the bottom. Same substance, different density, water floats on water. You lose chemistry, back of the class
blondie.I was keeping it simple for lower level readership, although I didn't think of that. Besides, I sit in the back of the class anyway, so I can pass notes to your mom and then do her in the bathroom.