Can ice be colder than Zero degrees?

Answer 1

Yes, and it will, indeed take on the temperature of it's surroundings (assuming that temperature is below zero).

Now, there is something called "supercooling". In the atmosphere water droplets can cool to a temperature well below zero before freezing if the atmosphere is without dust of any kind in it (such dust is called either condensation nuclei or cloud condensation nuclei). I am not certain how supercooling works, and I don't know if there are any home experiments to demonstrate it.

Check out the Petterson's Field Guide to the Atmosphere for more information.

Answer 2

There's something called dry ice which I think is colder. By the way there's a fascinating book called water. In it you will find just how interesting it is. For instance there are something like 20 different forms of ice, one of them will freeze any water immediately it comes into contact with it. Don't know the author I'm afraid.

Answer 3

Ice once formed will assume the temperatue of it suroundings as long as it is below freezing. Following is information on temperature scales.

There are three temperature scales. Most people are familiar with either the Fahrenheit or the Celsius scales, with temperatures measured in degrees Fahrenheit (º F) or degrees Celsius (º C) respectively. On the Fahrenheit scale, water freezes at a temperature of 32º Fahrenheit and boils at 212º F. Absolute zero on this scale is not at 0º Fahrenheit, but rather at -459º Fahrenheit. The Celsius scale sets the freezing point of water at 0º Celsius and the boiling point at 100º Celsius. On the Celsius scale, absolute zero corresponds to a temperature of -273.16º Celsius.

Answer 4

Sure it can, Zero degrees is only the temperature that water become Ice

Answer 5

It certainly can. 0 degrees celcius is the temperature at which water freezes, if water gets below this temperature it will still be ice but just colder ice.

Answer 6

Yes. Ice can be colder than its freezing point (0 degrees Celsius). Just think water can be warmer then its melting point, as such, ice can be colder than its freezing point.

Answer 7

When water at 0°C has 'Latent heat of freezing' removed from it it changes to ice also at 0°C. (Change of State)

Removing more heat called 'Sensible heat', will decrease the temperature of the ice to whatever level is required (Supercooled) (Change of Temperature). If you could remove sufficient heat you could take the ice down to near Absolute Zero Temperature.

(Going in the opposite direction, after vaporising water to steam at 100°C, (Latent Heat), the steam can be Superheated to whatever temperature you can attain (Sensible Heat))

(Geoff E. Dry Ice is solid carbon dioxide).

Answer 8

if you are talking in terms of Kelvin no (zero kelvin is absolute zero can't get any colder)
but Celsius (Celsius freezing point is zero degrees) and Fahrenheit yes(freezing point is 32 degrees)

Answer 9

yes, its only at zero degrees water freezes, it can be much colder than that

Answer 10

yes, if it is made up of impure properties. Pure water freezes at zero degrees. If the water contains anything it freezes at a lower temperature