An ice cube floating in a glass of water contains many air bubbles. When the ice melts, the water level will
A)rise.
B)fall.
C)remain unchanged.

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The principle of Archimedes states that the buoyant force on an object submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. When the ice melts, it turns into water that exactly fills the volume previously displaced by the ice. The air bubbles in the ice do not affect the overall water level because they were already accounted for in the volume of the ice. Therefore, the water level remains unchanged.

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