Why is it that when frozen peas are put into a saucepan of water some float and some sink?
Categories: Domestic Science.
Tags: plants, domesticscience, thermodynamics.
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Some of them have air bubbles in folds of their outer skin.
Some may have enough ice to act as a float, either inside or on their surface.
Sometimes this is possible because the pea got mildly damaged before being frozen.
posted on 2010-11-12 11:13:00 | Report abuse
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