Sunday, April 30, 2017

This Ice Spike Grew in My Freezer in Less than 30 Minutes

Sometimes I wonder what the heck is going on in there.


Posted by David Appell at 4/30/2017 05:40:00 PM

4 comments:

DrTskoul said...

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm

7:36 PM
David Appell said...

Thanks DrT. A couple of years ago I wrote an article about ice spikes, and wrote about Kenneth Libbrecht's work:

"When ice grows up," Physics World, February 2014, p. 52.
http://www.davidappell.com/articles/PWFeb14Appell-ice_spikes.pdf

7:49 PM
DrTskoul said...

Thanks for the reminder :) I had forgotten

4:15 AM
DrTskoul said...

Thanks for the reminder :) I had forgotten

I have never seen one in the fridge

4:16 AM

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