Why is Ice Slippery? | What the Physics?!

Ice is actually pretty complex. In fact, physicists have spent more than a decade trying to understand why it’s so slippery.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:13 The Structure of Ice
01:58 Historical Hypotheses on Ice
03:38 Recent Discoveries

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