When melting ice why may there be a slight rise in temperature before all the ice is melted?

smilam2008-02-24T18:25:01Z

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because it's not a true solution? Only a true solution would be uniform in temperature.
In theory though ice melting should be a relatively uniform temperature of 0 Celsius unless it isn't pure.

Anonymous2008-02-24T18:24:38Z

no, just because its state changes the temp wont