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Ice – From Nature to Frozen Desserts

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Ice. It comes in a wondrous variety of forms. Take a close look outside on a cold winter day and you’ll be amazed at the variety, from lake ice hard enough to drive on to dirt-encrusted drifts. There’s powder for skiing and packed snow for sledding and snowballs. Greasy curbside snow comes from salting and sanding the roads. And, there’s even man-made snow on ski slopes – do you know what they use to make that?

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Hartel, R.W., Hartel, A. (2008). Ice – From Nature to Frozen Desserts. In: Food Bites. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75845-9_35

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