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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Temperature, is how we experience the average speed (vibration rather than zooming around) of the particles in a substance: the faster they are, the hotter they feel. Relative to the “drink molecules”, the ice molecules are slower. As they bang into each other some of the movement energy from the fast (hot) drink gets transferred to the ice. The drink slows down a bit and the ice speeds up a bit. When it is fast enough the ice changes to freely moving water.
Overall then, the average speed of the drink particles in the drink have slowed down and the drink feels colder than the drink was to start with but warmer than the ice was.
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