Question

Why does ice float on liquid water? The linear structure of the water molecule allows ice molecules to pack together tightly enough to allowice to float Oxygen's low electronegativity leads to the collapse of the crystal structure allowing the molecules to become closer together in water It is a compound without carbon atoms that exists in the liquid state at room temperature and pressure Water molecules in the solid forme d in a crystal matter that has voids between the molecules. Als within the solid leis structurally similar to wood, soice floats on water in a manner similar to wooden shios where it becomes tra structure

Answer 1

ice is less denser than water because in ice the molecules arrange themselves in a rigid tetrahedral structure due to which cage like spaces remain in their bonding.

Means there are void present in the crystal of ice.

Hence option d is the correct answer.