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Why is ice a good cooling agent?

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because the ice can cool you down and its frozen and frozen things are cool

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because ice has the ability to absorb more heat energy than water

in scientific terms ice has a large latent heat of fusion which makes it a better cooling agent than water

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is because ice has a relatively high heat of fusion

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