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What if instead of the Summer and Winter Olympics it was the wet and dry Olympics?
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Is ice wet or dry?
Usually dry but I think it actually melts under the pressure of a blade, so events with skates might have to go in the ~~dry~~ wet Olympics.
Afaik they just discovered that Ice has a layer of water ("pre-melted ice) at the surface, which is the lubricant that makes ice slippery. So, imo ice is wet ^^
The phrase “pre-melted” is making me chuckle. If it’s pre-melted, surely it’s frozen? If it’s frozen, isn’t that just ice?
I think pre-melted means melted in advance, not the state before melting.
Eh, that's what they called it in the article and I'm neither a physicist nor a material scientist. They made a definite distinction between the two forms of the materials in this and other articles related to the topic which I was too topic-uninformed to understand. So you might be right :D
Nothing personal, my lack of understanding is what made me giggle :)