• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workOP
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      3 months ago

      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.

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          3 months ago

          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?

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            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