Liquids generally have lower density as compared to solids. But you must have observed that ice floats on water. Find out why.

-Nandita Bhattacharya, Subject matter expert at Edumarz

Answer : Generally, liquids have lower density as compared to solid but we do not see the same trend in ice. This is because ice has a cage like structure, it has empty or vacant spaces within itself. Due to these empty spaces ice being a solid has lower density than that of water and thereby it floats on water.