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Subject: Does Ice have a constant temperature?

Date: Fri Jun 1 16:45:29 2001
Posted by Jorge
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: New York State/Province: New York Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 991428329.Ph
Message:

Please help settle a disagreement between my sister - in law and Myself.  Will 
an the temperature of an object that is engulfed in a block of ice always remain 
at the freezing point (32 degrees)?  Will the temperature within that block of 
ice vary depending wether it the ice is stored in a freezer in a tropical 
location Vs. an artic location?

I had heard that during a cold spell,  orange farmers in Florida flooded their 
fields so as to keep the oranges engulfed in ice; or at 32 degrees, so that they 
would not spoil.  Does this mean that the temperatue within ice neever varies??


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