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01/10/2009 09:42:11 PM · #1 |
After starting this thread a week or so ago about waterdrops floating on the creek in my parent's back yard, I opened my freezer to find this in my icetray...
The water was put in the freezer today and the killer thing is there is ANOTHER one of these anti-gravity icicles on another cube going in a quite different direction.
Lest you think it was anything dripping (which doesn't make sense given the angled nature of the icicle), here is how they sit in the freezer. The icicles were on the top tray.
Who can explain this one?!?
Message edited by author 2009-01-10 21:42:54. |
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01/10/2009 09:50:43 PM · #2 |
| My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
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01/10/2009 09:51:36 PM · #3 |
static electricty from the bread bag ?
then again you'd think there would be others closer to the bag...
Message edited by author 2009-01-10 21:54:33.
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01/10/2009 09:53:28 PM · #4 |
That water is an  IreneM fan... |
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01/10/2009 09:58:59 PM · #5 |
small, transient gravitational vortex
some Quantum Mechanics snuck into your freezer--curse those Mechanics and their tiny tiny tools... |
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01/10/2009 09:59:01 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
lol! Close!
Actually, the conditions for ice spikes to form on your ice cubes has to be pretty ideal. It's caused when a hole is formed in the ice and as the water freezes the remaining water is forced up through the hole and forms the spike. I can't explain it that well but you can learn more about it here:
//www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/edl/icespikes/icespikes.html
Message edited by author 2009-01-10 22:01:15. |
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01/10/2009 10:01:37 PM · #7 |
Here is my theory. Since water expands as it freezes and the water in an ice cube tray typically freezes from outside in, a very small hole must have opened up in the top of the ice. This would allow water from the inside to slowly push it's way out as the pressure increased from the formation of the ice. Since it was a slow effect the icicle would stay hollow creating a sort of ice straw. As the internal pressure kept rising more and more water would rise up and out of the "Straw". The angles formed may be due to the turbulence of the air circulating inside the freezer during it's cooling cycles. But this is only a theory.. If any one else has a definitive answer I would love to hear it..
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01/10/2009 10:02:52 PM · #8 |
your freezer is too cold...
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01/10/2009 10:34:39 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
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01/10/2009 10:49:05 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
It's a rental house... :)
Thanks for the explanation Adam! Pretty neat to have witnessed two unusual phenomena in a few weeks. |
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01/10/2009 10:58:58 PM · #11 |
| Have your water tested for impurities Doc. |
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01/15/2009 04:43:09 PM · #12 |
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01/15/2009 05:22:40 PM · #13 |
i have no idea what that was other then very, very cool! |
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01/15/2009 05:51:18 PM · #14 |
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01/15/2009 05:57:13 PM · #15 |
super cool to be exact ;)
Originally posted by alpharich:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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Check out this unlikely source of icicles ...
i have no idea what that was other then very, very cool!
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04/30/2009 09:15:12 AM · #16 |
Clear explanation, but the writer says he makes cubes using distilled water. Isn't distilled water unsafe to drink? |
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04/30/2009 09:50:59 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by citymars:
Clear explanation, but the writer says he makes cubes using distilled water. Isn't distilled water unsafe to drink? |
Apparently not |
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04/30/2009 09:54:04 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by citymars:
Clear explanation, but the writer says he makes cubes using distilled water. Isn't distilled water unsafe to drink? |
Distilled water has no minerals in it - it is purely H2O. Some think that drinking a lot of distilled water over a long period of time can deplete your body of essential minerals. But I think it would take drinking nothing but distilled water for a long period of time for this to have any noticeable affects.
In my opinion, distilled water is perfectly safe. Distillation is the process of boiling water into steam, then condensing the steam into a separate container. Leaving all minerals and impurities behind in the distillation container, and the pure H2O in the condensing container.
If you want to make ice cubes out of distilled water to get the ice spikes, then use the ice cubes as well - this should be perfectly safe.
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04/30/2009 03:56:58 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
What else do you use to make ice? |
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04/30/2009 04:02:02 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by merchillio:
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
What else do you use to make ice? |
It just comes out of the magic hole in the front of the fridge... |
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04/30/2009 04:11:10 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by dknourek:
Originally posted by merchillio:
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
What else do you use to make ice? |
It just comes out of the magic hole in the front of the fridge... |
aaaahh... well some of us are stil stuck with fridge from the 19th century |
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04/30/2009 04:56:05 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by merchillio:
Originally posted by dknourek:
Originally posted by merchillio:
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
What else do you use to make ice? |
It just comes out of the magic hole in the front of the fridge... |
aaaahh... well some of us are stil stuck with fridge from the 19th century |
That is true unless you use an "ice Box" from the 18th century like Emeral L. |
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04/30/2009 05:20:17 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by merchillio:
Originally posted by dknourek:
Originally posted by merchillio:
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
My guess: You dropped one of your viagra in the tray. |
My guess... WOW people still use ice trays? :) |
What else do you use to make ice? |
It just comes out of the magic hole in the front of the fridge... |
aaaahh... well some of us are stil stuck with fridge from the 19th century |
I'm not fortunate to have a fridge with the magic ice hole, but I have seen them and they do exist. At home I don't have or use ice, which has been fine up until recently when I discovered how good sprite, lime and vodka over ice was at the local pub. Now trying to find ice trays :) |
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05/01/2009 03:18:10 AM · #24 |
I have a magic ice hole and it's great fun :D
(Dave... Dollar store) |
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05/01/2009 09:54:55 AM · #25 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
I have a magic ice hole and it's great fun :D
(Dave... Dollar store) |
I cant... |
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