Ice spike
By Jam
@montaun (256)
Philippines
October 19, 2018 5:19am CST
This is made possible by my aunt's new fridge. I never saw it happen to an ice cube before I used the freezer of the new fridge.
"The short explanation is this: as the ice freezes fast under supercooled conditions, the surface can get covered except for a small hole. Water expands when it freezes. As freezing continues, the expanding ice under the surface forces the remaining water up through the hole and it freezes around the edge forming a hollow spike. Eventually, the whole thing freezes and the spike is left." - excerpt from https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/edl/icespikes/icespikes.html
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@arunima25 (85265)
• Bangalore, India
19 Oct 18
I have seen it happening few times in my freezer too. Thanks for the explanation. I wonder how I was not curious to know about it. It seems that I have become too old for any curiosity.
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@arunima25 (85265)
• Bangalore, India
19 Oct 18
@montaun I have seen it several times and I was so preoccupied that I carried on without bother.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
19 Oct 18
Hmm that's interesting to know about spiking ice cubes. Maybe because my is slow freezing ao there are no spiking thing.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
19 Oct 18
i've never seen it happen, but it reminds me i have to search something online about our fridge so thanks.
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