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Grade 99 grade science

A doctor advises to use ice pad on forehead to bring high fever down
instead of using water at 0°C? Why?

Profile image of Siya Ann Siju
6 Years agoGrade 9
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Profile image of Arun
6 Years ago
A doctor uses an ice pad to bring fever down instead of using water at 0 degree celsius because ice at 0 degree celsius is colder than water at 0 degree celsisus. This is because water particles have more kinetic energy in the form of latent heat. Therefore, ice is more effective in cooling
Profile image of Ayush_Deep
6 Years ago
Doctor prefers to use ice instead of water because ice absorbs a high amount of heat to melt and has more potential to bring the temperature down.
Profile image of Yashraj
6 Years ago
because ice absorbs more energy from our forehead surface than water because it qalso take energy for phase transformation
Profile image of madhav kathuria
6 Years ago
this happens because the particles of water are warmer than ice because of the latent heat present in water which is absent in ice.
Profile image of VISHWA BRIJESH GANDHI
6 Years ago
It is because if we put 0-degree water on our head our head will start paining because of immediate change in temperature.