Is the atom of water different from the atom of ice?

Answer 1

yes, they are just packed tighter (more dense) in ice than dew ect (see below for more detail)

If the water droplets are different sizes, they contain a different amount of molecules. One water molecule always contains 3 atoms (One oxygen, and two hydrogen). Ice (solid water) is simply water molecules bonded differently, and dew (liquid water) is free water that is held together through electromagnetism (Van Der Walls forces). Steam (gaseous water) is made of water molecules that have no attraction to eachother. The spaces between the atoms and molecules in each case differs greatly.

Answer 2

Each substance is made up of exactly the same elemental atoms tied together. If they are not made up of the same number of atoms, then they are a different substance. For example water is made up of the molecule H2O . . . 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen for a total of 3 atoms; however, there is also a substance called Deuterium or 'heavy' water that is made of 2 double-heavy atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen, but it still contains the same number of atoms: 3.

Answer 3

No, both atoms are the same. Ice is just water but frozen.

Question from Dr. J.: How do you get an atom of ice or water? Wouldn't it be a molecule and not an atom?

Answer 4

Not all the molecules of water are identical; many forms exist: H2O, D2O, T2O, HDO, HTO, DTO and others because oxygen has also isotopes.
Note: D is deuterium, T is tritium.

Answer 5

How do you have an atom of water or ice? Maybe you meant a molecule?

Answer 6

No, the atom of water (H2O) is the same as the atom of ice. Ice is just the solid form of water, where water molecules are arranged in a crystal lattice structure.

Answer 7

The atoms are identical.

Answer 8

yes