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IT has been found that on very rare occasions long, thin ice needles grow into the air from the solid surface of water frozen in an open container1–4. In the course of supercooling experiments, Dorsey5 observed a similar phenomenon in the laboratory. He assumed that growth occurred when, because of the increase in volume during solidification, water was forced through an opening in the ice covering the surface. Dorsey also suggested that a tube formed, through which water flowed and which “grew” at its tip. Recently, Hayward6 reported a method for growing such spikes and obtained experimental evidence in support of Dorsey's mechanism.
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KRAUSZ, A., HARRON, B. & LITVAN, G. Tubular Ice Crystals. Nature 215, 271–273 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215271a0
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