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if we add a heat lamp to an experiment with ice and water, two things will happen
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Broadly, two main effects:
1) The ice will melt faster.
- The lamp supplies energy (radiation → heat) that goes into breaking the solid structure (latent heat of fusion). While ice and liquid coexist the temperature of the mixture stays ≈0 °C and the input energy is used mostly to melt ice rather than raise temperature.
2) The water and surrounding air will warm (and evaporation will increase).
- Once the ice is gone, additional energy raises the liquid’s temperature. Even while ice remains, nearby liquid and air will warm locally, producing convection currents and a higher evaporation rate.
If you need numbers: melting ice requires ~334 kJ/kg (latent heat of fusion), so the lamp’s power and exposure time determine how quickly those changes occur.
1) The ice will melt faster.
- The lamp supplies energy (radiation → heat) that goes into breaking the solid structure (latent heat of fusion). While ice and liquid coexist the temperature of the mixture stays ≈0 °C and the input energy is used mostly to melt ice rather than raise temperature.
2) The water and surrounding air will warm (and evaporation will increase).
- Once the ice is gone, additional energy raises the liquid’s temperature. Even while ice remains, nearby liquid and air will warm locally, producing convection currents and a higher evaporation rate.
If you need numbers: melting ice requires ~334 kJ/kg (latent heat of fusion), so the lamp’s power and exposure time determine how quickly those changes occur.
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