
Slippery Science: The Physics of Ice
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Is There a Surface Attachment?
As the temperature increased towards minus 7 degrees C, the mobility of these molecules in their model increased. So it was as if they were rolling around on the surface. But we haven't seen that experimentally. It is a model result, but it does match very nicely with the decreasing friction that we see at the same increasing temperature.
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