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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 165.07-1.0%Nov 18 3:59 PM EST

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To: John Dough who wrote (1067)11/18/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: A.J. Mullen  Read Replies (1) of 12233
 
Your instincts are correct. Water contracts on warming between, I remember roughly, 0 and 4 degrees Celsius. As ice melts, the temperature doesn't change, so nothing happens if it's floating. If it rises above the magic number of (I think) four degrees Celsius, then it sinks below any water that is cooler than four degrees.

A bigger effect is the thermal expansion of warmer waters getting warmer still.

Mrs. Thatcher, that well known liberal, was very concerned about Global Change when she was Prime Minister. She was a scientist before she was a politician.
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