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While most people assume that ice cools a drink by heat conduction (by putting something cool into something warm, the heat of the warm will transfer to the cold until an equilibrium has been reached), this is only a very minor part of the ice-cooling effect.

Ice will need a significant amount of energy in order for it to melt. Ice is basically water, held together in a solid form by hydrogen bonds between the water-molecules (or more specifically, the hydrogen-atoms which are part of the water-molecules). It takes up a lot of energy for these bonds to break and the ice to melt.

To put this in perspective: the amount of energy needed to melt 1 gram of ice is about 79.73 Joules. For those who remember their physics 101, 1 J is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of (liquid) water by 1 degree Celcius. Hence, the amount of energy needed to melt an ice cube, would raise the temperature of an equivalent amount of liquid water with nearly 80 degrees Celcius.

To conclude, the cooling effect of ice on a drink is partly because the ice will warm up from, e.g., -18 degrees to 0 degrees, but will then continue to absorb energy from the drink by melting.

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