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by fred flintstone on November 29th, 2008
Where is the location of the neritic zone?
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You're reading Imagine a sea of unlimited depth. Bearing in mind pressure as you descend, would you expect at some hypothetical depth for liquid water to be compressed into its solid form - ice?
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No, liquids can be forced in to solid by pressure. This is why the Fe-Ni alloy that make up Earth's inner core is solid while the outer core in liquid. How this would apply to water, I don't know seeing as ice is less dense that the liquid.
by Glenn Blaylock on November 29th, 2008
Your comment about density is well taken. I don't know about how the Iron Nickel relates to it, though I know that all matter can be compressed if the pressure is so great as to destroy the atomic structue.
by fred flintstone on November 30th, 2008
For most substances, the solid form is denser than the liquid form. So, pressure pressure can force a liquid to turn into a solid if it is high enough. The only exception that I know of to this rule is water. Water is unique in that the solid is less dense than the liquid. So, I don't know if pressure would be able to force water into a solid form if it were high enough.
by Glenn Blaylock on November 30th, 2008