Can pure water ice go below 0 degrees Celsius?

Question

i have this question about ice. cuz at STP, if u boil pure water, it can't rise above 100 degrees Celsius. but what about ice, can u freeze ice so that the temperature of the ice itself goes below 0 degrees Celsius (as in -2 or -3 or -50)?

Answer 1

Yes, water in the state of ice can get well beyond 0 deg c. All that happens is that it changes state from liquid water to ice and it continues getting colder.

Answer 2

Attn. Trent: Rime icing in aviation is NOT happening at STP!

Supplemental question: A cube of solid ice is cooled to -50degC, with a temperature probe stuck in the middle, and one at the surface. It is placed into room temperature surroundings. Does water form at the surface before the middle reaches 0degC? (answer:yes, otherwise nothing would happen until the cube was 0degC and it would suddenly collapse into a puddle.)

Answer 3

yes it is possible. ice temp can go below 0 c.

If the tepm of pure ice is decrease beow 0c then it can attain -1,-2... temp.

Answer 4

yes, ice can go down to 0 kelvin, that's -273°C

Answer 5

Even at STP, water can exist below 0 deg C.  this is called sub-cooling.  There is a significant problem in aviation called rime icing.

Rime is a white or milky opaque granular deposit of ice. It occurs when supercooled water droplets strike an object at temperatures at or below freezing. Factors favoring the formation of rime are small drop size, slow accretion, a high degree of supercooling, and rapid dissipation of latent heat of fusion. Rime is a result of freezing drizzle and looks like frost in a freezer. Rime icing which forms on aircraft can seriously distort airfoil shape, therefore diminishing lift and performance. Rime icing is more likely to form in stratus-type clouds with temperatures between 0°C and minus 22°C. When formed in cumuliform-type clouds, temperatures range from minus 9°C to minus 15°C and are accompanied by clear icing which is then termed mixed icing.

Answer 6

If you boil water it can't go above 100 degrees C unless all the water evaporates and then the steam can rise in temperature. The same applies to ice. An ice water mix is 0 degrees C but pure ice can be cooler than 0.

Answer 7

Sure. It's called Absolute Zero. Absolute Zero = - 273 celcius  

Answer 8

Yes, it can.

A mixture of ice and water, at STP, can not go below 0°C. However, once  the water has frozen completely, the temperature can drop below 0°C, because the latent heat has been overcome.