The diagram below shows a cooling curve for a substance :

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The diagram below shows a cooling curve for a substance :

The diagram below shows a cooling curve for a substance. ICSE 2025 Specimen Physics Solved Question Paper.

(a) State the temperatures at which the substance condenses.

(b) The temperature range in which the substance is in liquid state.

(c) Why do we prefer ice to ice-cold water for cooling a drink?

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(a) Substance condenses at 150° C.

(b) 150 to 60°C.

(c) 1 g of ice at 0° C takes 336 J of heat energy from the drink to melt into water at 0° C. Thus, the drink liberates an additional 336 J of heat energy to 1 g ice at 0° C than to 1 g ice-cold water at 0° C. Therefore, cooling produced by 1 g ice at 0° C is much more than that by 1 g water at 0° C.

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