What Are the Causes of Melting Ice?
Ice image by Eagle from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/0s/2p/causes-melting-ice_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Ice. Ice is the mineral form of water. Ice is formed when cold temperatures cause the water molecules to bond with each other in a very stable tetrahedral crystalline lattice structure. The molecules in ice have an attraction to each other and are resistant to change due to melting. To melt the ice, the molecular bonds must be disrupted. Charged Atoms eau image by Rémi BORNET from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/0s/2p/causes-melting-ice_-2.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Water molecules. The hydrogen in water molecules possesses a weak positive electrical charge and the oxygen atom carries a weak negative charge. In ice, these atoms adhere positive to negative, forming the bonds of ice crysta
