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Victoria E.
Feb 12, 2018

Water molecules are the most densely packed at #4^oC# in the liquid state. Ice is less dense so the molecules are further apart when in the crystalline state, and the molecules are the furthest apart when in the gas state.

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Water is unusual in many ways, and one is that the solid is less dense than the liquid.

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