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The level stays the same for the most part.findar said:i think the ice cube question is the new one.
an ice cube is in a glass of water. it melts.
will the water level raise, lower, stay the same?
If you froze a full glass of water, the ice is going to expand. If the entire thing was ice and it melted, it is going to reduce in volume relative to the original ice. So does this volume cause the ice in glass to go down? I would say not. To the human eye you are not going to see a large enough change in water level to see an increase/decrease.
The only way to see a huge increase or decrease is to make the glass of water so fucking narrow that a single drop of water added would raise the level of water.
To make the water level raise?
You can"t, even if you had the glass filled with 99% ice and 1% water, the thing isn"t going to go up in water level. Ice is not densely packed in and when it melts, it"s going to have less molecules of water than the same volume of ice, but with all liquid water.
To make the water go down?
The only real way to "see" a noticeable change in water level is the make the entire glass filled with ice (pretty much fill the glass with water, freeze it, then let it melt). Ice takes more volume than liquid water, so you will see the water level drop.