Question

Why the ice floats on water?? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Ice floats because it is about less dense than liquid water. In other words, ice takes up about more space than water, so a liter of ice weighs less than liter water. The heavier water displaces the lighter ice, so ice floats to the top. One consequence of this is that lakes and rivers freeze from top to bottom, allowing fish to survive even when the surface of a lake has frozen over. If ice sank, the water would be displaced to the top and exposed to the colder temperature, forcing rivers and lakes to fill with ice and freeze solid.

Answer 2

Ice is a solid but it's density is less than water because of its structure, when water freeze to form ice the molecules of water make a cage like structure with lots of of vacant space due to its less density it float.