What causes these noises?
2007-03-22 00:25:06 · 3 answers · asked by East Ender 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The cracking is simply the ice cracking. Some solids, when experiencing a fast temperature change, will fracture. The "frying" noise could either be little bits of gas escaping from within the ice cube, if any bubbles were frozen in there. It could also be the tiny surfaces of broken ice grinding against each other as different parts of the ice experience different temperature changes and thus change shape ever so slightly.
2007-03-22 00:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by yodadoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Temperature difference between the water and ice.
2007-03-22 00:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by Martyn A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the ice that cracks and little bubbles of oxygen gets out of ice as it melts. the combination of these sounds is what you hear that is like "frying" ;)
2007-03-22 00:34:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋