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what would happen to a 10 kg block of ice if you slowly increased the kinetic energy of the molecules within the ice
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what would happen to a 10 kg block of ice if you slowly increased the kinetic energy of the molecules within the ice

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The ice would melt. If we increase the kinetic energy, the heat energy and the temperature within the block of ice also increase. This is the reason that ice melts!

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it would melt because the molecules would speed up and spread apart
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