8 Beautiful, Weird, and Scary Things Ice Can Do

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Frozen water molecules don’t seem to be all that interesting. But, these eight weird things that ice can do are truly mind-boggling.

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Images:
Ice Spike:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fridge_stalagmite-Ice_spike.JPG
Ice Spike Chair:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_spikes_in_garden_chair_(3).jpg
Multiple Ice Spikes:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Multiple_ice_spikes.jpg
Freezing Fog: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morning_Freezing_Fog_in_Elko,_Nevada.JPG
Freezing Fog Desert: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014-12-18_08_54_10_Rime-covered_high-desert_landscape_after_freezing_fog_in_Elko,_Nevada.JPG
Frost Flower land: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frost-Flower-4.JPG
Frost Flower sea ice: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frostflowers2.png
Frost Flower land 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frost_flower_Ozarks_01.jpg
Frost Flower land 3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frost-Flower-2.JPG
Ice disc: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_circle_long_exposure.JPG
Ice disc 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Circles_in_Thin_Ice,_Lake_Baikal,_Russia.jpg
Frozen Methane Bubbles: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frozen_Methane_Bubbles_(11927906233).jpg
Ice Shove: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_shove,_Montreal_harbour,_QC,_about_1880.jpg