How cold is an ice cube?
It depends on the surrounding temperature. Water freezes at 0 degrees C, or 32 degrees F. Indeed, water can get colder than its freezing point. Consider the ice cubes in the freezer. If you put a thermometer inside with the cubes, you will discover the interior of the freezing compartment is almost always well below water’s freezing point of 0 C (32 F). Think about it: I you were to drop an ice cube into liquid nitrogen at -195.5 C, the ice cube would cool to -195.5 C.
