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Interesting,  Incredible,  Irresistible, Illuminating, ICE 

 Winter weather is the time to take advantage of the free ice maker nature provides.

 Get ready for a truly frigid night by gatheingr up lots of containers, fill them with water, and make yourself some  ice to play with.

If you put water in a bucket and let it freeze, it will freeze into a cup shape. Put a tea lite into the cup and you have an ice luminaria. Add food color to the water in some of your containers if you want colored ice.

With enough frozen water, you can build an ice castle!

What else can you add to your ice to make unique Ice Art?

 

Why Icicles Are Long And Thin? 
Mathematical Physics Explains How Icicles Grow Wake me when it's April gifts

ICICLES
 
Icicles form when the air is around freezing level. The areas not in direct sunlight will be cool and below freezing, while the sun melts ice and snow on more exposed surfaces. The melting water dripping down along edges refreezes in the cool air, forming a column of ice - the icicle. If icicles are attached to a structure other than a large volume of ice, they usually don't grow very large before breaking by their own weight.

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NOW ADD SALT

Salt is an interesting mineral with many unique properties. It lowers the freezing temperature of water.
It is used to melt ice on roads and walkways. Salt is added to ice when making ice cream in a churn.
Adding salt to ice makes interesting science.
 
Take ice cubes or make chunks of ice by freezing water in various containers. Sprinkle with salt. You can use table salt or sea salt.
 
The salt will melt little crevices into the ice. To see these nooks and crannies better, add liquid watercolor by dropping it onto the ice and salt.
Your salty ice cubes will look radiant when held up to the sun.

 
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If you leave chunks of ice touching each other, the salt will make some of them stick together after you leave them on the tray for a while. Can you guess why?

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