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Ice melts by absorbing heat when it melts, it's temperature remain the same. Where the heat energy go?

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Ice melts by absorbing heat but still the temperature remains the same because the extra heat gets used up in breaking free the force of attraction between the particles ice.This energy is said to be hidden in the content of ice and thus is referred to latent heat of fusion.

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