I’m not a huge natural science person, but I just wonder what the process of “transferring” temperature is from ice to drinks. And why does it happen fast?
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Radiation. If your drink is room temp and you put a freezing cold ice cube in it, it’ll radiate some of its heat into surrounding water. This will make the water cooler, but the ice cube will also get warmer. This causes it to get warm enough to go over the “frozen” threshold (32 F or 0 C). The ice then melts.
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