You use a melting ice cube as an example of an object changing forms without losing mass. But surely the melted water will occupy less volume than the ice cube?

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You use a melting ice cube as an example of an object changing forms without losing mass. But surely the melted water will occupy less volume than the ice cube?

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Dr. Md Rushad Rahman · Answer 1 · Feb 17, 2017 07:12:42

Mass and volume are not the same. You can stretch or compact an object to change its volume, but the amount of matter inside it will stay the same. In the ice cube example, the molecules in liquid water are closer together, but they're still the same molecules that were in the ice.

You use a melting ice cube as an example of an object changing forms without losing mass. But surely the melted water will occupy less volume than the ice cube?

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