
Slippery Science: The Physics of Ice
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Curling Ice
The ice Meisters still do what they do as they've always done. What's helped them a bit is the ability to purify water. They have tried different machines to create curling ice, but nothing has managed to create it as uniformly as a human walking up and down the ice with effectively a shower head. And that's because the machines can't listen to the ice. Like they are artists, those ice makers.
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