Why does the ocean elevate?

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  1. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    "Sure I suppose water gets denser as more of it is piled upon itself and it expands and contracts like all matter under pressure."

    Not entirely true. Pressure may cause a change of state. Under pressure ice can revert to water, since water occupies a lesser volume.
     
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  3. philocrazy Banned Banned

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    ice less dense than water!!!!!!!!!????????
    you see my humble fellow forum member, you come to such a conclusion
    because YOU weigh an ice cube to the world ocean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    iiiiiiiiiiffffffff ice lesssssssssssss dense than water
    tttttthheeeeeeeeennnnnnn water lesssssssss dense than gas!!!!

    I SAY ICE DENSER THAN WATER ALSO WATER DENSER THAN GAS
    I SSSSSSSSSAAAYYYYYYYY
    DENSER WEIGHS MORRRRRRREEEE THEN DENSE
    GRAB AND ICE BLOCK AND WEIGHT IT AGAINST WATER OF THE SAME VOLUME
    AS THE ICEBLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
    WHICH ONE WEIGHTS MORE????????????
    iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccccccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeee

    HAVE A NICE DAY!
     
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  5. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    Put a block of ice in water.

    It will float.

    Hence ice is less dense than water.

    End of argument.

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  7. Tristan Leave your World Behind Valued Senior Member

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    Philocrazy, whats up with your post? First of all, Ice is less dense than water. Period. I learned that in 7th grade. Secondly, your raving with caps and excessive letters is uneeded.

    Later
    T
     
  8. philocrazy Banned Banned

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    ofcourse you know
    but what is ice huh?
    water hmmmmm
    water is less dense than water everyone!!!!!!!
    hahahahahahahaha
    hahahaha
    woodchips is more dense than wood
    oil is more dense than water
    your brain more dense than an ape's thickskull,thats why you're so intellegent
     
  9. Tristan Leave your World Behind Valued Senior Member

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    Are you on something?
     
  10. Tristan Leave your World Behind Valued Senior Member

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    P.S. Yes Ice is water, but it crystalizes below 32 degrees farenheit to form a unique structure... a structure that increases volume with the same amount of mass... hence, it expans. This is why a water bottle, filled to the brim (or a pop can) will "explode" in the freezer.
     
  11. Andre Registered Senior Member

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    Yo, Philo, get yerself another dealer, man, this dope is too :m: Rats :bugeye:
     
  12. FreeMason Registered Senior Member

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    Well in reference to the Panama Canal, I think the reason is due to the proximity of the Divergent Plate Boundary to that region. That thermal source, and consequent "bulge" it produces in the surface of the Earth, causes a bulge in the ocean, though I'm not sure to what extent (so I'm not sure it is the answer).

    But that answer makes most sense.

    Atmospheric pressure also causes changes in Ocean altitude, lower pressure areas have a bulge, higher pressure areas have a depression or bowl.
     
  13. FreeMason Registered Senior Member

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    Pressure will only cause Ice to stay Ice...or Water to become Ice, please refer to a Phase Diagram.

    Water can not become "more dense" if pressure is applied, it is non-compressable.
     
  14. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    Look at about 260 deg near point III.
     
  15. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    This shows it even better:


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  16. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    Wrong. Of course it is compressible, just not by very much.
     
  17. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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  18. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    I suspect you might be well up on the super-dense water found in the inter-layer space of hydrophilic clays, Catastrophe.
     
  19. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    Nice link. thanks.
     
  21. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    FreeMason

    An apology would not be out of place ...
     
  22. FreeMason Registered Senior Member

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    No it wouldn't, I stand corrected, but you could have waited till I had a chance to arrive, this is the first I've viewed the forum. You are too impatient

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    Anyway, thanks for the compression data.
     
  23. Catastrophe Registered Senior Member

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    FreeMason

    OK I apologise for not waiting longer.

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