1.

Introduction

Water is a substance composed of the chemical elements hydrogen and oxygen and
existing in gaseous, liquid, and solid states. About 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered
by water. Although water is very common in our daily life but some of us actually do not
comprehend its anomalies. This is because there is a lot of phenomena that cannot be
e xpl ai ned as i t behave s very str a ngel y co mpare to ot her l i qui ds.

Thesis Statement

The mysteries of water include it becomes lighter as it freezes, no two snowflakes are
alike, and its freezing point is not always exactly at 0 °C.

2. Body

(a) Water becomes lighter as it freezes

Example: Take a glass of water and put into a freezer

-Other fluids grow denser as they cool but when water in liquid state turn into a solid
(ice), its volume become larger resulting in a decrease in density (by 9%).
-In other words, the hydrogen bonds that form when water freezes into ice allow the
molecules to be spaced farther apart, making them take more spaces; decreasing the
overall density and making it float in the water.

-Due to this property, it saves all of the life in the world.

-Why do we say that?
-As we know, at least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth’s history.
-An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and
atmosphere, causing the Earth turns into a snowball.
-However, not all the animals are frozen to death during that period.
-This was because when the weather became colder, the water on the Earth’s surface
froze and formed ice sheets.

-This ice sheets blocked the cold air from causing the water temperature to decrease
and allowed the sunlight to penetrate through it so that the marine life can continue to
live in that environment.
-If the solid ice is heavier than liquid water, then the ice sheets will sink in the water and
cause all of the water on the Earth to freeze.
-Therefore, all of the animals will die without food and water if the ice does not float in
water.
(b) No two snowflakes are alike

- Snowflakes form when water vapor condenses around specks of dust high in the
clouds.
-Snowflakes take different shapes depending on the weather conditions. So, snowflakes
falling at one place and time might look similar to each other.
-On the macroscopic scale, two snowflakes can appear identical in shape and size.
-However, at the molecular and atomic level, snowflakes crystals differ in terms of
number of atoms and isotope ratio.
-This was discovered by Wilson Bentley. He was the first known photographer of
snowflakes.

-He captured more than 5,000 images of crystals in his lifetime. Each crystal was
caught on a blackboard and transferred rapidly to a microscope slide.
-It's fair to say sometimes two snowflakes look alike, especially if they are simple
shapes, but if you examine any two snowflakes closely enough, each will be unique.
-In short, the properties of water are so uncertain and miraculous.
(c) The freezing point of water is not always exactly at 0 °C

-As we know, ordinary water freeze at 0 °C or 32 °F; however, water may remain in
liquid form as cold as -40 to -42°F.
-Supercooling is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid or a gas below
its freezing point without it becoming a solid. It achieves this in the absence of a seed
crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form.
-The supercooling of water can be achieved without any special techniques other than
chemical demineralization, down to minus 48.3 °C (minus 55 °F).
3. Conclusion

-In conclusion, the properties of water behave strangely as it becomes lighter as it

freezes, no two snowflakes are alike, and its freezing point is not always exactly at 0 °C.

-Besides those properties, we cannot ignore the mysterious energy of water as it might
attributes to the Tunguska event.