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EXERCISE 11


Does a water ice cube float in a glass of liquid water?
Does a dry ice cube float in a glass of liquid carbon dioxide?  

Explain how the slope of the solid-liquid
border for the phase diagrams of water and carbon dioxide
can tell you the answer to these two questions.