IS THERE ANY WATER or LIQUID ON ICE?
KEYWORDS
Liquid like layer, ice slipperiness, melting pressure, frictional heating, chemical bonds
ABSTRACT
Being an engineer and being interested in the questions which many of us do not notice pushed me to research that topic. Moreover, I would like all readers to realize how scientific experiments answer the questions which is hard to be replied. At the end, I learnt how physical and chemical explaination involve in the answer of question, which is why ice is slippery.
İNTRODUCTİON
When we talk about phase transition, probably the first thing which comes to our mind is a visible example of transition of water and ice from liquid to solid. It is obvious that many of us have experienced the slipperiness
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When a pressure on ice is carried out, it’s melting point will change, and it will lead to have a liquid like layer on ice. That idea comes from the ice skater’s. The area of ice skaters’ shoes is pretty small so that the pressure will be higher than it is. And, that situation will lower the melting point of water. Therefore there will be a very thin layer of water on the surface of ice, which is almost impossible to see with the naked eyes. The idea was suggested by James Thomason in 1850. Additionally, James Thomason computed that a pressure of 466 athmospher is enough to decrease the melting point of water to -3.5 from 0. As a result of this a thin liquid layer on ice will occur. However, he could not prove how hockey is played under -3.5 …show more content…
Bowden and T. P. Hughes. But, not only pressure melting but also frictional heating can not tell us why ice is slippery even someone or someting does not move on it. Fraday proposed that a thin water on ice would be frozen when put in the middle of more than one piece, even though the liquid like layer keep being liquid on an alone piece.
Researchers have tried to make it clear the existence of liquid-like layer. In 2004 Katsuyuki Kawamura carried out experiments. Thin liquid like layer has been formed because of the less amount of chemical bonds which keep molecules on the surface. Atoms located in outside of the surface make more vibration than atoms which are inside of the surface. As there is an vibrational interaction between surface molecules, it is clear that surface melting occurs.
A good description of a glacier is given by Jim Wickwire in his book “Addicted to Danger.” In it he says, “A glacier is not a fixed, solid thing. It flows like a river, with currents, some parts smooth, others rough” (Wickwire, 1998, p. 1). This happens to go along with Webster’s definition, in that a glacier must be moving, either because of gravity or because it’s spreading out underneath itself due to additional accumulations. (Meeriam-Webster, 2000, p. 493).
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Regelation - The process allows glacier ice to slide over rough beds by melting and refreezing on the downglacier side. It occurs as the most resistance to glacier movement is provided by the upstream side of obstacles. This results in locally high pressures and the consequent encouragement of ice melting immediately upglacier of the obstacle. The resulting meltwater migrates to the lower pressure area downstream where it refreezes. This process is most effective when objects are less than 1m in size.
In the movie Touching the Void, it starts off by two people named Joe Simpson and Simon Yates that go to Peru to climb the Siula Grande Mountains. The ranges of those mountains haven’t been climbed and those who have tried to climb them, failed. Simpson and Yates tried to climb the glacier even though they knew the risks. A glacier is made up of fallen snow that has been accumulated throughout the years and it forms into a large and thick ice masses. It’s where the snow remains that have been remained in a certain are for long periods of time and it transforms into ice. The type of glacier that they climbed was a confined glacier. The glacier was a depositional, because when Simpson was walking towards the campsite where Yates was, he had to pass through the moraines, where it’s a formed accumulation of glacial debris in which consist of soil and rocks.
Pressure on the ice reduces the melting point. If pressure is afterward reduced, water will freeze again. This is called regelation. When a player skates across the ice, he or she applies a lot of pressure, leaving a trail of water where the blades were. Because the pressure leaves quickly, the water freezes to ice again (Haché 22). Nevertheless, pressure is not the only factor that causes this melting. Friction also takes part because it creates heat. With help...
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