Chemistry
How do fishes and aquatic animals survive in winters when the pond gets covered with thick ice?
Answer
The property of anomalous expansion water enables marine life to exist in the colder regions of the world because even when the water freezes on the surface, it remains in liquid state below the ice layer as the density of water is greater than the density of ice and ice is a bad conductor of heat.
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