Was playing Don’t Break the Ice today and I was wondering if someone could explain the science concept behind what holds the ice pieces together. Preferably a little deeper than just “pressure of pieces in a small space.” I looked online but it didn’t help me out very much lol.
Eta this is literally to explain it to a 5 year old
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Plastic deformation. Some plastics (almost all) have a point where it can bend or deform, and still return to it’s original shape. If you bend it, the work you performed can be stored in the plastic until released. When you place the ice blocks in, it deforms the plastic flaps around the frame, they push back with an equal and opposite force, and that holds the pieces in place. When a gap is made, the plastic pushes back to it’s original shape, and the pieces fall.
There are other things, like the fact they’re tapered and not square and the blocks are technically bigger than the hole in the frame.
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