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How Ice Melts

Posted by Zonk on from the i-can-sleep-tonight dept.

Killer Instinct writes "Ever wonder how ice melts? Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced yesterday, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack. Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical world."

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  1. Anti-Cold by TimeTraveler1884 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ever wonder how ice melts?
    Not really. But I have a hypothesis that it has something to do with heat or as I call it, "anti-cold." There seems to be a relationship between 0 degrees Celsius and ice melting. Likewise a relationship with 100 degrees Celsius and water boiling (when under one atmosphere of pressure). There must be some underlying mathematical connection; for these events and their temperatures surely can not be coincidence. Some day I will solve this mystery, but only when I am properly funded by government grants.

  2. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait wait wait, let me get this straight. We put a man on the moon, developed flying machines composed of several hundred tons of steel, and we just now BARELY explain why Ice Cubes melt in our drink? You know, sometimes humanity really is....scary. What'll be truly frightning is if scientists come out with an explanation as to why Ice Cube still gets movie roles.

  3. Re:Hmmmmm... by turtled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't read the full article earlier, was this one of the top 125 Big Science questions?

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  4. I am sure that Frosty the Snowman... by Brad1138 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is thrilled to know exactly how he will die come spring.

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