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Generally, ice melts at 0oC. Ice at 0oC absorbs sufficient amount of heat from external environment, (may be surrounding or other hot body, eg: Water) called as Latent Heat of Fusion. This heat changes the ice from solid to liquid state, and the rate of fusion directly depends upon the temperature of surrounding or other object (as mentioned above). During this process all parts of the ice get the heat which is sufficient to melt, and the final obtained liquid has the same temperature initially. Thus the melting point of ice is approximately 0oC (because the atmospheric pressure may affect it a little).

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