What happens to water when it freezes or boils?
Water's Dance Party
What happens to water when it freezes or boils?
Water is the great shape-shifter of your kitchen. Pour it, freeze it, boil it — same stuff, three completely different personalities. So what's actually going on when ice cubes clink or a kettle screams? Let's zoom in until the water gets very, very small.
Picture water as a crowd of tiny dancers, far too small to see. They're always moving — wiggling, bumping, sliding past each other. How fast they dance depends on one thing: temperature. Heat is just energy, and energy is the music that makes them move.
