Re: Water near freezing point: Why not huge viscosity?


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| Pedant Point: While viscosity of frozen water is very high, I'm not
| sure it's infinite; glaciers flow. Then again, an alternate
| explanation is that pressure lowers the melting point, so that the
| glacial layers slide on a thin boundary layer of liquid water.

Hahahaha!
How convenient that the boundary layer is just where it is needed
regardless of the amount of mass above.
Definitely one for Mythbusters.


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