Silver Bowl

It slightly depends on the tempereture of the surroundings, but silver has a significantly higher heat conductivity (mostly denoted by $\lambda$ ). This is due to the motions of the electrons in their last orbitals (valence electrons). Also, the $\textit{Wiedemann-Franz law}$ states, that

$\frac{ \lambda_t}{ \lambda_e} = k \cdot T$

where $k = 3 [ \frac{R}{F}]^2$ is the ratio constant.( $R$ is the gas constant, and $F$ is the Faraday charge.)

Stated in words, the ratio between thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity is directly proportional to the temperature of the material.

As said, since silver is higher in both of these statistics, the ice will melt faster in a bowl made of $\boxed{ \text{silver}}$ .

Simple. Ice just hates glass more because of the Great ice and glass war.

Silver being a good conductor of heat absorbs more heat causing the ice cream to melt

Heat will more easily pass through clear glass while siliver will reflect more of the heat back in on the ice cream speeding up the melting processes.

silver is a better conductor

This is a good demonstration of this.

In simple terms Silver absorbs more heat than a glass bowl. So the icecream will melt faster in the silver bowl.

This isn't that hard of a puzzle to solve, given simple science, in which we can apply to the real world: cooking.

• We usually cook with pans, and the heat is attracted to metal, instead of the rubber handle

• While baking a boxed cake,if you use a glass pan, it will probably tell you to cook it for longer.

There are two properties of Silver that explains why you will observe the ice cream melt in less time. The thermal and electrical conductivity of Silver is higher than that of Glass. Therefore, Wiedmann-Franz law states that ice cream will melt for quickly in a Silver bowl than Glass a bowl.

Silver has higher boiling point compared to plastic .... And it also depends on a temperature

l think it's just because the spesial ship of the bowl.And light will go through of the glass straghtlly

I used this method to arrive at the solution:

Thermal Conductivity of Silver is more than Glass. So Silver will have conduct (Absorb) more of room temperature than glass, hence ice cream melts faster.

Is this right way to conclude?

This is basic thermodynamics of different materials. Thermal conductivity of silver is about 400 W/ m K, Glass is at .8 W/m K and this a much better thermal insulator.

Glass has low conductivity as compared to silver. Silver will catch heat from surrounding more quickly thus melting ice cream faster.

As silver is good conductor of heat , the heat will melt the ice easily in comparison of the glass bowl (which is an insulator).

Assuming all conditions are equal, the only difference is that the silver will give off heat quicker than the glass ( silver conducts heat well). This means the ice cream absorbs heat quicker in silver, i.e. melts faster.

I wanna say... Lasers?

The metal bowl is a conductor and will conduct atmospheric heat into the ice cream. The glass bowl is an insulator and will insulate the ice cream from the atmospheric heat. The ice cream will melt faster in the metal bowl.

Ice cream heats up faster in a silver cup compared to glass cup as silver's thermal conductivity is more.

More conducting => warms up faster