– If the pressure at the bottom of the ocean is so extreme, are the molecules pushed closer together? If so, why isn’t it hotter, if the molecules are bumping into each other more?

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– If the pressure at the bottom of the ocean is so extreme, are the molecules pushed closer together? If so, why isn’t it hotter, if the molecules are bumping into each other more?

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Answer 1

Water molecule is weird, and water density doesn’t depend on temperature in quite the linear way you might intuit. It’s at its most dense at about 4 degrees Celsius, so this is the temperature at the bottom — anything hotter or colder is less dense and thus rises up