Small city, BIG ammenities! That is Hidalgo, Texas. The City of Hidalgo is located on lands settled by Spanish -colonizer Jose de Escandon in 1749, as an adjunct to the new settlement of Reynosa, both part of colonial Spain until 1821. The desert settlement was mainly involved with cattle grazing for some 150 years.
When something changes phase from solid to liquid, or from liquid to gas, it takes energy to break the intermolecular interactions. These interactions between the water molecules are what make it solid. When you have ice, these interactions are strongest, which is why ice is hard.
One change of state that happens when you add energy to a substance. is melting. Melting is the change of state from a solid to a liquid. This. change of state is what happens when ice melts. Melting Point. As the temperature of a solid increases, the particles of the solid move. faster. When a certain temperature is reached, the solid will melt. The. temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid is the. melting point, or melting temperature, of the substance.