Question

on suffering from fever which will lower down your body temprature more ice or ice cold water? why?

Answer 1

Ice will lower down our body temperature more as compared to ice-cold water. This is because ice absorbs more latent heat (of fusion) from the surrounding than water.

Answer 2

On suffering with fever ice will lower the temperature of body more than ice cold water.

This is because ice will absorb more heat from the body due to its latent heat of fusion to first change its state and convert to ice cold water and then further increase in its temperature.

Ice cold water on the other hand would directly increase in its temperature without using any heat as latent heat of fusion. “The latent heat of fusion of ice” is approximately about 334 Joules per gram.