Question

freezing a sealed full bottl of water leads to a broken bottle and freezing a sealed full flexible wall container of n butyl alcholol leads to a container with concave walls, what can you conclude about the densitiies of the solid and liquid forms of these two substances

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

We know that water begins to expand at 4°C. This is generally referred to as the anomalous behavior of water.

The implication of this is that ice has a greater volume than water. Thus ice is less dense than liquid water.

n-butyl alcohol has much less density than water. This accounts for the fact that water upon freezing breaks the bottle while n butyl alcholol leads to a container with concave walls.

Hence the density of ice is much higher than the density of n butyl alcohol.