Questions: You place ice cubes in water and you notice after a few hours, the ice cubes melted into the water. This is....
a physical property
a chemical property
a physical change
a chemical change
Transcript text: You place ice cubes in water and you notice after a few hours, the ice cubes melted into the water. This is....
a physical property
a chemical property
a physical change
a chemical change
Solution
Solution Steps
Step 1: Identify the Process
First, we need to identify what happens when ice cubes melt into water. Melting is the process where a solid turns into a liquid due to an increase in temperature.
Step 2: Determine the Type of Change
Next, we determine whether this process is a physical or chemical change. A physical change involves a change in the state of matter without altering the chemical composition. Since melting ice cubes only changes the state from solid to liquid without changing the chemical composition of water (H\(_2\)O), it is a physical change.