PD wrote:
>
> And the answer is that because ice is less dense than water, the
> volume of the ice when it melts (into water) becomes exactly equal to
> the volume under the waterline of the icecubes. This is in fact the
> discovery that Archimedes made a few years back.
>
> PD


Displacement, but not with ice. He used water displacement to prove
that a piece of gold wasn't pure, by comparing its displacement to a
piece of pure gold of the same weight. The only other way would have
been to melt it down to measure the volume.


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