Manufacturing Engineering & Technology
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Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid
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Chapter 10, Problem 41QLP
If you inspect a typical cube of ice, you are likely to see air pockets and cracks in the cube. Some ice cubes, however, are tubular in shape and do not have noticeable air pockets or cracks in their structure. Explain this phenomenon.
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