A couple of weeks ago I attended the Israel rally in Ottawa. The afternoon on Parliament Hill was set to be a day of hope, commemoration, unity, and鈥. cold. The first of the major snowfalls was set...
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...
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...
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...