If you turn the heat off of boiling water, it cools down pretty quick, and if you leave ice out, it quickly melts. But once it escapes it’s extreme temperature, it then takes much longer for it to get to room temperature. Why is this? /r/
In: Chemistry
Water as do all things has a specific heat capacity, which is a set amount of energy required to raise (or lower) the temperature for a given volume of water. In general the larger the difference between the temperature of the water and the ambient temperature of the surroundings the quicker the temperature of the water will start to move towards the ambient temperature. Now with ice we have something different again in that we have something called latent heat that is a specific amount of energy required to turn ice a 0 centigrade to water at 0 centigrade, the amount of energy required is substantial and is about the same energy required to raise the same amount of water by 80 centigrade https://youtu.be/18pK7rPtAAk
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