Discussion
Assertion: the fusion curve of water slopes backwards. Reason: ice is less dense than liquid water.
Answer: C
Melting reduces the volume, so by Le Chatelier's principle pressure favours the liquid and the melting point falls. The negative volume change is exactly the term that sets the sign of the slope in the Clausius-Clapeyron relation.
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