PERFECT DRIP In icicle-growing experiments, scientists found that growing a smooth cone of ice requires pure water and a breeze, while other conditions create bent or lumpy pieces of ice like these. A. Szu-Han Chen and S. W. Morris/Experimental Nonlinear Physics/University of Toronto
A team of Canadian iciclologists has put to rest the notion that one frozen cone of drips is exactly the same as the next.
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