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How do the molecules move in the frozen lake?

1. They don't move
2. In place
3. Away from each other
4. Around each other

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The hydrogen bonds in liquid water constantly break and reform as the water molecules tumble past one another. As water cools, its molecular motion slows and the molecules move gradually closer to one another. ... For most liquids, this continues as the liquid freezes and the solid state is denser than the liquid state.
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2 they move in place, molecules only stop moving at absolute zero and away from each other in gases, they move around each other in liquids
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