Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Friday, October 07, 2011
Can Someone Explain How This Happened?
This is the second time I've seen this happen and there were two like this in the ice cube tray. I didn't do anything unusual.
They are called ice spikes and have to do with the expansion of water when it freezes. I as wondering how they stay up when the water is liquid, I couldn't imagine that it froze fast enough after being shot out of the cube, but the link below explains how a tube forms and then water flows up the tube and then freezes.
A friend and regular reader said with this post he thought it was time I get a job again. I just found it interested and figured you might come through :)
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LOL - before I saw your comment I thought "wait, Howard's posted this before!" Totally cool.
They are called ice spikes and have to do with the expansion of water when it freezes. I as wondering how they stay up when the water is liquid, I couldn't imagine that it froze fast enough after being shot out of the cube, but the link below explains how a tube forms and then water flows up the tube and then freezes.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm
Thank you.
A friend and regular reader said with this post he thought it was time I get a job again. I just found it interested and figured you might come through :)
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