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The glaciers are visible because Ice floats when it freezes .This particularly helpful to life as it insulates the water below and is home to a variety of animals. Which is property of water is the reason that we can see icebergs float

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Water is denser as a liquid than as a solid.

Step-by-step explanation:

The property of water that makes icebergs float on is due to the fact that water as a liquid is denser than as a solid.

According to the rules of floatation, a less dense substance will always float on a denser liquid because a body will always displace its own weight when placed in a liquid. At room temperature, water as a liquid has a density of 1 g/cm3 but if the same water forms ice, the density would be 0.92 g/cm3. Hence, when ice is placed on water, it will float on it.

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