Key Points The finish applied to the floor, cleaning product residue, moisture, or footwear can contribute to slippery wood ...
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Why ice is slippery may finally be solved after decades of debate
For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us ...
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Decades-old mystery solved as scientists identify what really makes ice slippery
When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, ...
The Saarland researchers reveal that the slipperiness of ice is driven by electrostatic forces, not melting. Water molecules in ice are arranged in a rigid crystal lattice. Each molecule has a ...
SEATTLE — Black ice is one thing to make a road slippery, but what about plain old rain? Is it really more slippery right when it comes down? The answer is pretty simple: Yes, because oil and water ...
[For the last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up this week.] This awareness, of course, is part of why ...
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