Question

Jacob has a bucket of ice. He covers the bucket with a lid and sets it in the sun. The ice melts into liquid water. How does the mass of the ice compare with the mass of the water?

Answer 1

Answer:

The mass of the ice remains the same in comparison with the mass of water.

Explanation:

As the bucket of ice melted with the help of the sun, the mass of ice remains the same as the mass of ice because there was not any evaporation or adding of water to the bucket, the only thing that happened was a change in the state of matter from solid to a liquid called fusion.

Answer 2

Assuming that none of the liquid evaporates, the mass of the ice would be the same as the mass of the water because no chemical change occurred, only a phase change occurred.

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