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Cold welding is the kind of thing that makes sense when you think about it but is still crazy that it actually happens.
by ThrowawayTestr 3y ago
Cold welding is the kind of thing that makes sense when you think about it but is still crazy that it actually happens.
- quickthrower2 3y agoHmm: Does frozen water do the same in space? Why doesn’t it do it on earth? Is it the air in the way?
- mcswell 3y agoDunno, but I've heard that tongues can weld themselves to icicles on Earth.
- febusravenga 3y agoSome of us even experienced it in person. :)
- tanbog5 3y agoYour applying a liquid (water in your tongue) to an object at the freezing point of that water. The water is freezing onto the surface of the ice. I don't think this is cold welding but I could be wrong.
- 20after4 3y agoice cubes stick to other ice cubes, I would assume it's because of melting and refreezing but I can see one reason why cold welding might not happen: Ice is dihydrogen oxide, so that oxygen atom might be a problem for cold welding.