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Smitty Two wrote:
In article
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wrote:
I have a fridge\freezer with an ice maker. The automatic ice maker
storage got high and a single ice cube got
placed behind the large storage tray, it has sat there for a while,
but started getting smaller, now it is
almost nothing.
What causes this cube to get smaller in an environment that appears to
stay the same?
Other's have addressed your concern, but since you brought up ice cubes,
maybe I can hijack the thread for a moment and invite speculation on an
odd experience I had many years ago.
In a standard plastic ice cube tray in my freezer, one of the cubes grew
a vertical icicle. Probably 1/2" to 3/4" long, and perfectly icicle
shaped, i.e., a long, narrow, pointed shape, roughly symmetrical but
with typical irregularities.
I did keep it, but sublimation apparently ate it up after about a week.
Never seen it happen again, and never heard of it happening to anyone
else.
***{The same question was raised last year at about this time. That
post, including my response, is copied below. --MJ}***
In article .com,
"Paul Cardinale" wrote:
On Mar 19, 4:11 pm, Dan wrote:
My brother was making ice cubes in my fridge for 1792 (Whiskey). One
cube grew an upward rod that ended in a point, about an inch high. My
brother likes to see things like this as signs that our dead dog is
sending a signal, but I told him it probably has something to do with
impurities in the water. Can someone explain this?
Dan
Yes. The explanation as to why your brother sees things that way is:
he is a woo-woo.
***{I've seen those spikes myself. They rise up out of the centers of
ice cubes. The likely reason is that the cube freezes from the outside
in. That means there is a reservoir of liquid in the center of the cube
as the outside freezes. Since water expands as it freezes, the liquid in
the center gets squeezed tighter and tighter, and eventually pushes out
through the point of least resistance. That point is usually at the top
of the cube in the center. Only in that way can the pressure be
relieved. Naturally, as water oozes out, it freezes around the edges of
the opening so formed. Result: a little volcano type of structure arises
there. That's how the spikes are formed. --MJ}***
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