Have you ever slipped on ice and fallen on your derri猫re? At best, it is unpleasant; at worst, it can send you to the hospital with a broken bone (or even kill you). Icy sidewalks and parking lots...
Growing up with cold Canadian winters means that we get to enjoy tobogganing, skiing, and other snowy activities. It also means that from a young age, we鈥檙e warned of the dangers of getting too cold.
Our collective vision of Christmas landscapes is so immersed in snow that the very phrase 鈥淚t鈥檚 beginning to look a lot like Christmas鈥� conjures up imagery that is nearly all frosted, sparkling and...
Let鈥檚 start at the very beginning. As pure water is cooled to 0oC, it begins to form ice. This simply means that the H2O molecules which were randomly scurrying about in the liquid state now assume...
Snow-making machines actually make tiny beads of ice, each one about one ten-thousandth of an inch in diameter.聽Water is sprayed from a hose together with compressed air.聽The air is needed because...
Just about any subject becomes more interesting with a deeper dive. That is certainly the case for curling, a sport that is a mystery to many and unfortunately often the butt of jokes. However, it...
Ice is great in a beverage or on a skating rink but we don鈥檛 want it on our streets. How do we melt it? Potassium acetate, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride or聽 urea will do the...
Why is it that in hot countries we put salt on ice in the ice cream makers to keep the ice from melting, while in cold countries we put salt on ice to melt it? In both cases, the answer is based on...
The ice was painted white. Artificial ice, which is a misnomer since it is very real ice, is made by pouring water over a concrete surface that can be cooled by circulating refrigerated brine...
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