Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:11:40

Author: chuck britton

Subject: Re: Heavy Water Ice Cubes Are Floating

Post:

Looking to see if there are 'air' bubbles in the ice might be good.
Is the D2O fairly free of dissolved gasses?

At 9:51 AM -0700 6/7/10, Paul Doherty wrote:
>Hi Wade
>
>When the cubes come out of the freezer they might be cold enough to
>freeze a layer of regular water on the surface.
>This would add buoyancy.


Cool, then they would sink as they warmed up!!