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Title: amount of heat given off to freeze water?
Post by: tweedledee on February 13, 2012, 07:26:09 PM
If it takes 500 joules of heat to melt an ice cube, how much heat would be given off to re-freeze the water?
Title: Re: amount of heat given off to freeze water?
Post by: XGen on February 13, 2012, 07:48:20 PM
What is your train of thought? Do you have any idea what this kind of phase change, and the heat difference associated with it, is called?
Title: Re: amount of heat given off to freeze water?
Post by: Arkcon on February 13, 2012, 08:14:53 PM
It either takes more, less, or exactly the same amount of energy.  Yeah, I know, that sounds dumb of me to mention. ;D  But if it took more or less, wouldn't that be really useful?  As a free source of energy?  Ever hear of any of those, in real life?