/ Ice crystals Content for UC 海角原创 en /news/ice-surface-melts-one-step-time <p>For a solid, ice is slippery stuff, even well below its freezing point. Victorian scientist Michael Faraday discovered over 150 years ago that ice is coated with a thin layer of liquid, which both makes ice slippery and contributes to chemical reactions at the surface. Now, researchers in Germany, the U.S. and Japan have used a combination of experiments and computer modeling to show how this 鈥渜uasi-liquid layer鈥� forms as layers of the ice crystal melt.</p> December 14, 2016 - 9:45am Andy Fell /news/ice-surface-melts-one-step-time