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LittleMissScare-All
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Hello, I'm a highschool student and there has been this question bugging me ever since my physics teacher insisted my point of view was wrong but it never sat right with me so I want to share it and get a proper explanation.
Consider a perfectly isolated system containing an infinite mass of pure water at 0°C. The system is maintained under ideal conditions where the freezing point of water and the melting point of ice are both 0°C. If a minute quantity of ice at -1°C, approximately the size of a dust particle, is introduced into the system, will a phase transition occur such that all of the liquid water solidifies?
thank you
Consider a perfectly isolated system containing an infinite mass of pure water at 0°C. The system is maintained under ideal conditions where the freezing point of water and the melting point of ice are both 0°C. If a minute quantity of ice at -1°C, approximately the size of a dust particle, is introduced into the system, will a phase transition occur such that all of the liquid water solidifies?
thank you