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.
Melting is the phase change from a solid to a liquid, whereas solidification is the phase change from a liquid to a solid. The molecules have enough energy to move about each other but not enough to completely separate from each other. 890 J. 10.7 kJ. 1  Temperature does not change during a phase change. 2  The process of a liquid becoming a gas is called boiling; the process of a solid becoming a gas is called sublimation.