Imagine the following experiment: You have a large graduated cylinder containing 100. mL of liquid water at 0°C. You drop an ice cube with a volume of 25 cm³ into the cylinder. Ice has a density of 0.92 g/cm³, less than the density of liquid water, so it floats with 92% being under water.
(a) To what level will the water in the graduated cylinder rise after adding the ice?
(b) Allow the ice to melt. What volume will now be occupied by the liquid water? (One consequence of global warming will be a rise in sea level as ice in the northern and southern regions of the planet melts. However, the effect relates only to melting of ice on land. Melting of floating ice will have no effect on sea levels.)