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Why Ice Is This Summer's Hottest Trend

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The Importance of Cloudy Ice

An ice cube will typically freeze, starting them outside and moving towards the center. Camper could get the ice in his freezer to freeze in one direction, like a pond. Then the cloudy part would form at one end of the ice, the last part to freeze. But how to do that? Well, he took a small lunch cooler,. filled it with water, but the whole thing into the freezer. He left the lid of the cooler off. So the walls and bottom of the cooler were insulating the water from the cold of the freezer. But the top was exposed. So the cold air would only hit the top of the water, and that part would freeze first. In theory

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