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Originally Posted by Andy C
Back to ice and ice chest. What some of y'all are saying is that if I get 2 ice cubes store one at 32 and one at 0 over night they will both melt at the same time when taken out of there storage bens???
Cause it seems to me the cube at 0 would last longer cause it has 32 degrees to warm up before it started melting and the one at 32 degrees would start melting right away????
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You are correct its kinda hard to explain unless your familiar with the theory of heat/ latent heat. But basically what happens is if you store ice at a colder air temp the air will continue to absorb btu's from the ice. Your never actually make anything matter colder you are only removing more heat from an object. Therefore it will take more btu's of heat to rerun the Ice back to a liquid state. I'm no expert on scientific part of this. We just had to learn it when I went to AC & Refrigeration school.