8 What you think is the initial porosity of an icefilled McD

8) What you think is the initial porosity of an ice-filled McDonald drinks cup? Can you do some simple experiments with ice filled cups in home and roughly estimate this value? Explain your experiments and report the number. What will happen to the porosity as the ice in the cup started to melt? Can you think of the real aquifer where something like this (i.e., supporting porous media structure start to vanish) could happen?

Solution

Initial porosity will be in between 5 to 8 percent,take series of photographs with passage of time,estimate the area of holes by taking print of it in black and white.as the time passes the porosity increases.in real aquifer same concept happens,but in real aquifer porosity may be higher.