What other ways can you melt ice?

Question

What other ways can you melt ice other than heat? This is for a science experiment. Please work with me and dont tell me water and salt. Thank you!!!!

Answer 1

you can lower the pressure to next to nothing and the ice will sublime as long as it's not much colder than 32 degrees, some energy (heat) is always needed, but there would be enough energy even in the ice for sublimation to occur at a low enough pressure

Answer 2

Remember first and foremost that ice is simply the "hardened" lattice structure of individual water molecules. The hydrogen bonds holding the molecules together only begin to dissolve when there's enough energy to initiate quantum vibrations that prevent this stable association. Heat is the perfect way to do this because it gives the individual molecules energy on a submolecular level. Water and salt do this because salt is simply a polar ionic compound and the continuous polar attractions that the salt induces on the ice help to "pull it apart," per se, by inducing individual subatomic attraction.

With that in mind, induce energy into the bond system. How? Introduce radio waves or microwaves or any waves that have a high frequency. It's not a concept most people think about because it's unconventional. But it works. It might take a little more effort, but the high frequency associated with certain light/sound waves provides just enough energy for the individual bonds providing the attraction between the Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms to break. You can calculate the bond strength between these two atoms and then find a corresponding frequency of sound waves or light waves to either match it or overmatch it. If it overmatches it, then the bonds will begin to slowly disintegrate as they are provided more and more vibrational power and hence ice liquifies.

Answer 3

To melt ice you have to do one of two things: 1) raise the temperature of the ice or 2) lower the freezing point of the water.
Calcium chloride will also melt ice, and at lower air temperatures than salt. Salt becomes ineffective at a temperature of 10 F.
The only ways to thaw frozen water is to apply heat / energy or to reduce the pressure.
You can also melt ice by rubbing it, but that causes heat .

You can put the ice in red wine vinegar and then mix baking soda in it with fresh crushed apple. It will not only melt it but it will make the ice taste delicious.
Chemicals Used to Melt Ice

Ammonium sulfate (NH4)2SO4 -7°C (20°F) Fertilizer Damages concrete

Calcium chloride CaCl2 -29°C (-20°F) Melts ice faster than sodium chloride Attracts moisture, surfaces slippery below -18°C (0°F)

Calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) Calcium carbonate CaCO3, magnesium carbonate MgCO3, and acetic acid CH3COOH -9°C (15°F) Safest for concrete & vegetation Works better to prevent re-icing than as ice remover

Magnesium chloride MgCl2 -15°C (5°F) Melts ice faster than sodium chloride Attracts moisture

Potassium acetate CH3COOK -9°C (15°F) Biodegradable Corrosive

Potassium chloride KCl -7°C (20°F) Fertilizer Damages concrete

Sodium chloride (rock salt, halite) NaCl -9°C (15°F) keeps sidewalks dry Corrosive, damages concrete & vegetation

Urea NH2CONH2 -7°C (20°F) Fertilizer Agricultural grade is corrosive

Friction, like rub two pieces together (but when you rub them together that causes heat). Put ice in water, pressure squeezes it, pour salt on it and leave it set out. But we think most of these answers in one way or other still some form of heat which melts ice.

Cold running water also melts ice very well....though I don't know if you would consider that heat, as the water must be above freezing temperature to be running.

Pour warm water on it.


Have you ever been served an iced, but warm drink? Here's how to melt the ice quickly and easily.
Steps :
Blow air into your straw. The warm air emitted from your breath melts the ice, cooling your drink.
Tips :
Don't blow too hard into the straw, as your drink may overflow.

Answer 4

Heat IS the only way. By definition.

Are you trying to find some way to heat the ice more quickly without directly applying heat?

Hmm, any chemicals, that, when added to water, cause an exothermic reaction (give off heat)?

You could also just blow a fan on it - moving air, even at room temperature, will heat it more quickly.

Answer 5

You can use bleach to melt ice really fast. Laundry detergent melted the ice also really fast. Calcium chloride was actually not the fastest melter. Bleach melted the ice really fast.


You can put the ice in red wine vinegar and then mix baking soda in it with fresh crushed apple. It will not only melt it but it will make the ice taste delicious.

Answer 6

Ice will sublime, turn directly from a solid to a gas. If a very dry wind blows across the ice it will get smaller as the water molecules sublime.

Answer 7

Heat is needed. Can be obtained by convection (adding hot water, using hair dryer etc. and by radiation in a microwave oven.

Answer 8

you can just leave it out in a bowl to melt
put it in warm liquid

Answer 9

WELL i THINK THE TEMPUTERE WOULD HAVE TOO BE ABOVE 32% TOO MELT ICE ,

Answer 10

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