Ice Glue

Today at Science, we didn't know what the experiment was called so I'm going to call it the Ice Glue! The things that we needed were:

• A bowl of cold water (But we didn't have a bowl so we just used a beaker)
• A matchstick
• An ice cube
• A table salt

This is the instructions if you want to do the experiment yourself:

1. Place the cube carefully in the bowl (beaker) of cold water
2. Gently place the matchstick lengthwise on the top of the ice cube
3. Sprinkle enough salt on the ice cube with the matchstick
4. Wait for 30 seconds 
5. Gently lift the ice cube to see if the matchstick was sticking on the ice cube like the matchstick was glued on the ice cube

An explanation 

Why did the matchstick stick on the ice cube?

It's because salt makes the ice colder and it melts it and when the ice gets really cold stuff on it will start to stick, it's like eating an ice block if the ice block is really cold, your tongue will stick to it.  I don't know the actual scientific explanation but I just wrote what I think what happened and how it did it.

Some people didn't really get to do the experiment right because they weren't following the instructions but some people did.

Why do we sprinkle salt on an icy road? So the ice on the road will melt so the road won't be slippery.

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