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Episode 53: μ: The Science of Ski Wax

Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast

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What Type of Characterization Methods Would You Use?

"I think that holistically we should look at what a ski base is made out of anyway. Do we need to have them made out of ultra high, more likely weight polyethylene or should we make them out of something else?" "The hardness of the material actually plays a much stronger role in the glide performance," he says. "And I feel like this is such an important topic for Utah because everybody sneezes and skis here."

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