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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 April 1934, Page 12

If it Avero not for one peculiar property of Avater, the history of the earth AV.ould have been completely altered and man might never have been born!

Almost everything increases in size when it is heated and'becomes smaller when it is cooled. Jn ordinary circumstances. water does exactly the same, thing. But the strange point is that if you cool water to seven degrees above freezing-point it stops decreasing, begins to expand, and continues to do.so until it becomes icp. This, of course, is why ice always' oceupiu* more space than the water from which it is made, and so easily bursts jugs and water-pipes. It also explains why ice floats in water. Jf water followed the general rule, and decreased as it grew colder, ice would lit* heavier than water and would form at the bottom of ponds, rivers and seas instead of at the top. That would mean that in the past ice ages all the living inhabitants of the, water, including the progenitors of man, would have been frozen, to death for numerous forms of life are always to be found, beneath the iee-top])«d seas of t.o-day.

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