I looked it up but I still don’t understand, if the cells in liquid are jiggling around, shouldn’t they need to condense to become a solid? Like how if you have a bunch of packing peanuts, if you shake the box, they’ll move around a lot, whereas, if you squish them down into a block, they’ll condense, and not move. Sorry that’s the best analogy I could think of I just don’t get it.
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In a liquid, the molecules are being shaken around enough that they can’t line up with eachother. When crystalline solids (like ice) form, they settle down and line up. Sort of like magnets snapping together.
Usually, even when they’re lined up, they’re smaller than the liquid state, but in the case of water they actually spread out a bit.
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