wrote:

erm, no it won't - think about the chemistry first.

Ice is a lattice structure (like a diamond), and it takes energy for
the molecules to move into the lattice. ...

Hey - that's physics, not chemistry.

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting" (Ernest Rutherford;
I think nowadays we'd say maths or stamp collecting given much of modern
physics).

But in a different thread, has recently written

I stumbled across this while looking for the coefficient of expansion
of water...

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/anmlies.html

Chris.

which discusses this and 40 other interesting properties of water.

Douglas de Lacey