i) Water in lakes and ponds do not freeze at once in cold countries. Give a reason in support for your answer.
ii) What is the principle of calorimetry?
iii) Name the law on which the principle is based.
iv) State the effect of an increase of impurities on the melting point of ice.i) The specific latent heat of fusion of ice is sufficiently high (336 J g-1 ) so as to freeze water, a large quantity of heat has to be withdrawn, hence it freezes slowly.
ii) Heat energy lost by the hot body is equal to the heat energy gained by the cold body. This is called the principle of calorimetry. For this, hot and the cold body should be kept in close contact and there is no exchange of heat from the surroundings.
iii) Law of conservation of energy.
iv) The melting of ice decreases by increasing of impurities in it.