Why does water become cold when icecubes are added to it?
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Answer:
when ice is added to water the ice takes the specific heat from the water and in turns makes it cool
Answer:
When we add ice cubes to water, they absorb the heat from the water and turn into liquid state which inturn cools the water.
Explanation:
The answer lies with the concept of heat transfer.
Heat transfer can only occur when there is difference in temperature.
Let me brief about it.
Let’s say the ice is at a very low temperature(say its around 273K). Now the normal room temperature of the water is around say 303K.
You are adding the ice at 273K to water at 303K.
“According to II law of thermodynamics, heat can only flow from hot body to cold body without any work being done and not vice versa.”
Here, the hot body is water(relatively) and cold body is ice.
Hence as per the statement, heat flows from hot body to cold body(neglecting the interaction with the ambient atmosphere). Now you can guess what would happen. The heat from the water would have been gone into the ice and it would start melting. Thus the water’s temperature is reduced. This heat transfer stops when there is thermal equilibrium between the bodies, i.e. when both the bodies attain the same temperature.
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