when the ice melts the water will have no place to go
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You mean the ice is already in there before you fill it because if you add ice it will spill over, if I am not mistaken.
Nothing will happen. Water expands when it freezes, so as it melts, the water will take up less space. You’re likely thinking of freezing in which the bottle might burst.
Ice is less dense than water.
That’s why ice cubes float and why lakes freeze from the top down.
So since water is more dense than water-with-ice-in-it, the overall level of ice-plus-water will go down in the sealed bottle as the ice melts, and if it’s truly airproof, it will create a little suction and resist when you try and open it later.
So, nah, no exploding bottle. Sorry to disappoint fam.
As others have mentioned, water takes up *less* space than ice. Water is a somewhat unusual material that shrinks as it heats up (most things expand)
An interesting version of this experiment is to have an ice cube in a glass and then fill the glass up right to the brim with water and hypothesize what will happen as the ice melts. Some people will think the melted ice will just immediately overflow while other people who know that ice shrinks as it melts might think that the water level will reduce but in reality it stays at the same level because of buoyancy. It’s a good way illustration of several principals of physics.
I think you mixed up the order of your experiment.
if you fill a bottle to the brim with water and then add ice, the ice will displace the same volume of water, which will overflow. You then close the lid. When the ice melts it will take up less space than the water, so the volume of liquid in the bottle will be less, and there will be a bit of a vacuum created.
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