frozen bubbles

[piranha]

i found this in a margarine container of cat food that had been left outside after the cats (and the racoon) had eaten the food, it had rained, and then we got a relatively hard, dry freeze. the radiating bubbles make me wonder how exactly water freezes. guess that'll be today's research subject. :)

Comments

[flarenut.livejournal.com]

Impurities like to stay in the liquid. And heat transfer through ice is much slower than through water (but ice has a lower heat capacity). Everything pretty much follows from that...

[jinian.livejournal.com]

We recently had marvelous little spiky outgrowths from an irregular constellation of drops on the sidewalk, perhaps from a process like the formation of "ice spikes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike).

[platonios.livejournal.com]

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Cool! Pun intended. :-)

Re: frozen bubbles

[eagle]

That would make a kick-ass desktop background, or the basis for a desktop theme. That's really awesome-looking.