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Which has stronger hydrogen bonds: water or ice?
As ice is the solid form of water and it has more hydrogen bonds than water because its oxygen atoms are precisely tetrahedrally positioned and each oxygen is hydrogen bonded by four neighbouring ...
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Why is ice less dense than water?
I know the traditional explanation, which says that ice has large spaces between $\ce{H2O}$ molecules because hydrogen-bonding gives it an open structure. But what does the open structure have to do ...
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