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Explain the following:
(a) Why do ink pens start leaking at high altitude
(b) Why does ice float on the surface of water?

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Solution

a) Because of the difference in the pressure outside and inside of pen ink vessel. it is lesser outside.
b) Because the density of the ice is less than that of water.

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