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.


4 comments:

DrTskoul said...

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

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

DrTskoul said...

Thanks for the reminder :) I had forgotten

DrTskoul said...

Thanks for the reminder :) I had forgotten

I have never seen one in the fridge