Hydrogen bonding in water is responsible for several of its anomalous properties, including the fact that solid water (ice) is less dense than liquid water.
Liquid water is denser than ice due to
Asked in UPSC CAPF 2017 · Topic: Physical Properties of Materials (Viscosity and Surface Tension)
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