A Styrofoam Container Used as a Picnic Cooler Contains a Block

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Short Answer

A styrofoam container used as a picnic cooler contains a block of ice at 0°C. If 225 grams of ice melts in 1 hour, how much heat energy per second is passing through the walls of the container? (The heat of fusion of ice is 3.33 × 10⁵ J/kg).

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