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Ice cream is measured in volume despite being a solid.
Straylight · 31-35, F
@NerdyPotato Huh… I’ve never thought about that before. 🤔
Elessar · 31-35, M
@NerdyPotato I'm ready to bet €50 the first who introduced this thing was from either Britain or a former colony
sarabee1995 · 31-35, F
@NerdyPotato Ummm ... Ice cream is a solid??? Since when?
Elessar · 31-35, M
@sarabee1995 Not beating the allegations 🙂↔
@sarabee1995 from the moment it gets frozen. 😅
sarabee1995 · 31-35, F
@NerdyPotato While there are certainly ice crystals within ice cream and they are indeed solid, it would not be correct to describe the entire mixture as "frozen". Ice cream is more appropriately characterized as a colloidal suspension and not a solid. ;)
Elessar · 31-35, M
@sarabee1995 Jokes aside, if my memory isn't rusty and I recall correctly the chemical definition of liquid implies it cannot have its own shape but assume that of the container
The very fact you can have scoops would mean it's solid (in transition) 🖖🏻 similarly to the ice in my weekly Campari, technically it's still ice (thus solid) while it's melting
The very fact you can have scoops would mean it's solid (in transition) 🖖🏻 similarly to the ice in my weekly Campari, technically it's still ice (thus solid) while it's melting
sarabee1995 · 31-35, F
@Elessar I'm not saying it is a liquid. I'm saying it is a colloid. ;) Neither solid nor liquid, but a certain kind of mixture of them both ... and some gas for good measure.






