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Question
Explain the following:
The surrounding become pleasantly warm when water in a lake starts freezing in cold countries.
Solution
The reason is that the specific latent heat of fusion of ice is sufficiently high, so when the water of lake freezes, a large quantity of heat has to be released and hence the surrounding temperature becomes pleasantly warm.
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