# Can ice have a higher entropy than water?

I've leant that entropy is a state of randomness, and that solids have a more structured form, therefore having less entropy.

However, I saw a YouTube comment stating the following:

a liquid NOT ALWAYS means higher entropy than a solid it depends...of the context for example,﻿ in the south pole, ice means higher entropy, because Mother Nature sets the equilibrium for liquid water to become ice.

Is there justification for this statement? Is it true that even in a more ordered substance like the ice, there is more entropy?

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"in the south pole, ice means higher entropy,.." Its true in following sense:- At south pole temperature of surroundings is below zero degrees i.e. <273K. Now consider ice and water in equilibrium at 273K. If water can lose some of its heat to the surrounding to form ice, then the entropy of total system ice+water+surrounding will increase. So the exact statement should be : "in south pole formation of ice is entropically favored". –  user10001 Jan 30 '13 at 19:39
In the South Pole or ANY other place as well, where ice is melting into water... There is nothing special about the South Pole, nothing more than in my glass of Coca-Cola with ice. –  Eduardo Guerras Valera Jan 31 '13 at 10:12

Let's consider the following situation. Suppose we have an ice block of mass $m$ sitting at $T=0^\circ\,\mathrm C$ in a container. To melt the ice, we need to heat it up, and the exact amount of heat we need is the so-called "latent heat of fusion" of the ice, and is given by $$Q=mL$$ where $L$ is called the specific latent heat and is specific to the melting substance. The change in entropy of the system during the phase change is, in this case, given by the heat absorbed by the ice divided by its temperature (note here that temperature should be written in Kelvin for the following to be valid which is why we're not dividing by zero) $$\Delta S = \frac{Q}{T}=\frac{mL}{T}$$ which is positive. This shows that the entropy of an amount of ice at $0^\circ\,\mathrm C$ is less than the entropy of the same amount (mass) of water at $0^\circ\,\mathrm C$.

I'm not sure what the YouTube comment is referring to.