What is ice is a liquid or solid or gas?

Answer 1

Ice cream is certainly not a gas; it exists in a consistency that many would define as "semisolid". Normally, when cream is frozen, it becomes completely solid, forming a single, solid crystalline matrix of slow-moving polar water molecules. This is what happens to ice cream when it is placed in a freezer after it melts. As this texture is undesirable, ice cream is given a creamy texture through the process of churning -- while the cream is being frozen, it is stirred so that, instead of forming into one big solid ice crystal, the water in the cream forms several small ice crystals, which results in the soft, solid treat that ice cream lovers enjoy.