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ice cube madness
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PD wrote:
On Mar 18, 11:55*am, Smitty Two wrote:
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*monkey 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.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/s.../icespikes.htm
Thank you!
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