SimpleStripes
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#27192 2007-12-06 04:09 GMT |
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i was taking a walk and and noticed some frozen snow/ice and i knocked it over and it broke like glass. why does it do that?
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Sheepish
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#27193 2007-12-06 04:09 GMT |
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snow/ice as you call it breaks like glass because when water freezes, as you know, the atoms/particles come together and slow down: therefore, a crystalline structure forms... so when it breaks, the vibrations of what ever caused it to break move through the ice, and removes the bonds between the particles (not molecular or ionic bonds, "bonds" as in stuck together)
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Gideeup
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#27194 2007-12-06 04:09 GMT |
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Because ice is a crystaline structure and, like all crystals, it's fairly brittle.
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