Zelda thing

[Dust_Collector]

So in Ocarina of Time there's this special red ice that is so cold that not even fire arrows or dins fire can melt it, but there is a special blue fire that can melt this red ice. However the blue fire doesn't melt the ice because of how hot it is, but rather because of how cold it is. I was wondering how we would quantify something that is so cold it can melt ice that is too cold for normal fire to melt it.

 

[Oleggator]

Didn't played Ocarina of time yet but I guess Red Ice is supposed to be hot while blue fire is supposed to be cold.
In other words, developers reversed Ice and Fire with each other while changing colors, as strange as it may probably sound.

 

[Dust_Collector]

No the red ice is just really cold.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Admittedly; it sounds mostly unrealistic (Since Blue Fire IRL is actually the hottest type of fire that is hotter than White fire for much of the same reasons Blue stars are the hottest stars and red stars are the coldest). But it could have an extremely high specific heat capacity and/or density as opposed to specific temperature being higher. Or it could be similar to how Ice Melt salt works in which the fusion energy and atomic structure of Red Ice is effected to have a lowered freezing point. But however it works, it's most likely the fusion energy and atomic structure being effected in some way or form rather than it having a raise in temperature and the specific heat capacity of red ice needs to be lowered to melt it that is otherwise impossible to do so through pure heat of any typical fire.