Eli5: why is ice sticky and slippery?

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Title.. no other solid behaves like ice does.. you can’t stick ur tongue on a cold rock or stick two cold rocks together and they stuck together or slip on another solid rock.. why is that?

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I’m not sure what you mean by “stick ur young” but one of the things that makes ice sticky is that putting relatively low pressure on two pieces of ice causes some melting of the surfaces in contact, which then re-freeze together when the pressure lifts. Rocks might behave the same way but would need a lot more pressure to temporarily turn into a liquid at the point where the rocks are in contact.

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