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What happens to ice 'particles' when ice is melting?:

1. Not sure what is meant by "particles".

2. Ice is the solid form of water. Water has a property that it does change volume when it changes from solid to liquid.

(The maximum density of water is at 4 degrees C.)

Irrelevant: So, when the ice melts, the water level does not change.

When an ice cube melts it reduces in size until it completely melts into liquid form.

So what you may say, and I would agree. The question, even when re-phrased as above, is vague, to say the least, even possibly inappropriate. The molecules do gain enough energy to escape their lattice crystal configuration if that's what the questioner was after.

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