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.
RELATED ARTICLES. When a substance goes from one state of matter â solid, liquid, or gas â to another state of matter, the process is a change of state. Some rather interesting things occur during this process. If you measure the temperature of a chunk of ice, you may find it to be â5Â° Celsius or so.