How will you compare the temperature of the ice cube and that of
your palm?
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Once the icecube is frozen, it’s pretty much the “average temperature” of the freezer it’s in. The temperature in most freezers are not a constant due to defrost and duty cycles. The ice cube’s “thermal mass” will act like an “averager” but will track with the freezers temperature with a little bit of lag. Technically, the temperature in a piece of ice is an “integral function of several variables ”. The same holds true for a glacier/iceberg over the seasons. I find “averager” is a good enough description.
As others mentioned, it will start warming when you both open the door to the freezer and more so when you pull the ice cube out.
Dunk it in a glass of water, the outside will readily approach 0°C and the insides will be colder by a semi-complicated relationship. Odds are you are not doing a temperature profile on an ice cube, although it can be done.
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