Yes it does. If the greater the surface area of the shape, the faster it will melt. If you have different shapes but all have the same volume, the one with the greatest surface area will melt first and the one with the least will take the longest time to melt.
The shape of and Ice cube does affect how fast it melts .To be specific, different shapes have different amounts of surface area. For example, your cube shaped ice has six squares on it's surface, where as the half-moon or half-cylinder shaped ice has two semicircles and two rectangles (one is straight and the other curved). So even though both ice shapes have the same mass, density and volume, they have different amounts of surface area, depending upon the dimensions (length, height, radius) of the shapes. By increasing the surface area, the rate of a process (such as ice melting) increases as more of the ice is exposed to the warmer atmosphere.
Yes the shape of ice affects on how fast it melts because if you make sure you add the same amount of water you can put it on its side even faster then it does standing straight up.
No it will just melt into a puddle of liquid. The shape that it was in before does not affect the shape that it melts in but if it is in an ice cube tray then the liquid will obviously stay in the shape of the ice cube tray pocket.
If it it slightly bigger on one side then it will melt slower than other areas of the ice that are thinner.
Yes it does.why?try putting 2 cups in the freezer with the some volume then see which one melts first.the one that melts first had the greater surface.
The shape with greater surface area will have more heat transfer if the volume of each shape is the same. If they are in the same environment, an ice cube shaped like the cylinder of an air-cooled internal combustion engine will melt much faster than an ice cube shaped like a watermelon.
Wow that person above is such an arrogant child.yeah, for example, a really long and thin sheet of ice will dissolve in seconds, while a dense, fat piece of ice will take longer, because the heat cannot reach into the centre and has to work through the outside first.
No, the shape of ice doesn't affect the melting point of the ice cube, only the freezing point of water. Above the freezing point of water ice will melt.
Of course the shape affects the melting speed. Around here, there are still piles of snow in parking lots where they were dumped. This is long after the equivalent amount of snow has completely melted from streets and lawns where it was spread more thinly.
It's all about the rate at which heat is transferred. The larger the surface area, the faster it will melt--other things being equal.
I think that it will take loner for the thicker ice cube to melt than the thiner one because the thiner one is thin and the thicker one is thick so that's what I think
