Which melts faster... Water, Milk, or Soda?

[Basiljohnson]

If an equal amount of each liquid... water, milk, and soda are frozen for the same amount of time in the same freezer...which
melts fastest? I seem to be getting different results.

[deleted-2131]

Hi Basiljohnson,

I'm guessing that by getting different results you mean that one time the milk, water, and soda melted in one order, and then another time they melted in a different order. Is that correct? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The milk and soda will probably melt as a slightly different temperature than the water, because they have things dissolved and suspended in them. If all of your samples are the same size and the same shape, that will help minimize variation in your results. Did you control for size and shape, in addition to "equal amounts"?

How many times have you repeated your experiment? It's normal for data to be variable, which is why scientists repeat their measurements. If I know how many times you're repeated your experiment, I'll have a better idea for whether what you are getting is unexpected or not.