Freezing water expands. What if you don't let it?

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REFERENCES

Page with TONS of info about water and ice
https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_...

Specifically, a graph showing density & temperature & pressure along the phase line!!!!!
https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/images...

Water freezing in isochoric conditions (theory):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4200...

Water pressure/density calculator
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physic...
http://www.csgnetwork.com/water_densi...

Article about pressure vs temperature vs volume expansion: Using freezing as a source of energy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.....

Latent heat of water at 0C
https://link.springer.com/referencewo....

Mariana Trench
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana....

Regelation on wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regelat....

Using Ice VI to freeze meat without tissue damage
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...



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