by Guru Meditation » Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:50 am
Fred Edwards wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:32 pm
v12 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:40 am
Frozen, the body will float, be it fat or not, be it female or not. Remember the ice cubes in your drink ?
Ice floats because water is at it's most dense at 5 centigrade.
Nothing to do with temperature. frozen water has less mass per volume than its liquid counterpart, can't remember the specifics, but it is in the .8 to .9 range.
Correction: yes 4-5 degree water is slightly denser, but by a rather minute margin compared to the difference between water and ice.
Frozen meat would normally sink, unless the outside ice block is large enough to compensate also for the weight of the meat. Lumps with more varied densities than mostly meat pieces might fare differently.
Have you never dropped a frozen Xmas ham in your bathtub, and noticed that it sinks? I was sober, but stumbled on something and the ham landed in the tub just as my partner was about to jump in.
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Frozen, the body will float, be it fat or not, be it female or not. Remember the ice cubes in your drink ?
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Ice floats because water is at it's most dense at 5 centigrade.
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Nothing to do with temperature. frozen water has less mass per volume than its liquid counterpart, can't remember the specifics, but it is in the .8 to .9 range.
Correction: yes 4-5 degree water is slightly denser, but by a rather minute margin compared to the difference between water and ice.
Frozen meat would normally sink, unless the outside ice block is large enough to compensate also for the weight of the meat. Lumps with more varied densities than mostly meat pieces might fare differently.
Have you never dropped a frozen Xmas ham in your bathtub, and noticed that it sinks? I was sober, but stumbled on something and the ham landed in the tub just as my partner was about to jump in.