Semicolon Help please :)

I can't put my actual sentence as Turnitin will say I plagiarized from my own question :P But my sentence structure is like this:

Ice cubes melt when heated; hence that is why I believe they should be placed in refrigerators.

Do I use a semicolon before hence?

Question

Semicolon Help please :)

I can't put my actual sentence as Turnitin will say I plagiarized from my own question :P But my sentence structure is like this:


Ice cubes melt when heated; hence that is why I believe they should be placed in refrigerators.

Do I use  a semicolon before hence?

mani_jha · Answer

Actually, I don't think that you need to put 'hence' and 'that is why' in the same sentence. Both phrases do the work of explaining a reason or result. Yes the semi-colon is not wrong, but the sentence should be either of the following:
Ice cubes melt when heated; hence I believe they should be placed in refrigerators.
Ice cubes melt when heated; that is why I believe they should be placed in refrigerators.

pottersheep · Answer

Fixed it! Thanks!