Can ice chip blades?

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I was wondering if people have used their blades to break ice and is ice hard enough and more likely to chip a knife compared to wood?
 
Ice is like a rock, so yeah, you can chip a knife on it. You can break a tooth on ice, too.
 
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Ask these guys. The Polar Explorer was a reinforced ice-rated passenger vessel that was designed to run adventure cruises in the Artic and Antartic. She had a new skipper that was had experienced in the Artic, but was a new comer to Antartica. He ended up driving his ship through packed Antartic ice which was a lot harder than what he was familiar with, and it literally sawed the botom right off the ship.

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As long as you don't hit the other unknown below it a good blade destroys frozen H2O. I've done plenty of picking with fixed knives.

The Explorer? Put it in perspective dude, wind resistance can lift a car off the ground or tear the wings off a plane but farting on a Forschner isn't going to bend it.
 
cotdt said:
Ice at -400 degrees is as hard as diamond.
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As hard as diamond is at room temperature, or as hard as diamond at -400 degrees? Where can I go to learn more about such things? Materials science fascinates me.
 
Bill1170 said:
As hard as diamond is at room temperature, or as hard as diamond at -400 degrees? Where can I go to learn more about such things? Materials science fascinates me.
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Materials Engineering books and classes.
 
I used my Busse NMFBM to smash a huge amount of ice built up on my back steps. It smashed through the ice, into the concrete steps and smashed that as well. A good knife should have NO problem against frozen water.
 
cotdt said:
Ice at -400 degrees is as hard as diamond.
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about all substances are.
it's -240 C, 30 degrees above absolute zero (-273 celcius)
If you got out your knife at -400, your arm would freeze off instantaneously (probably even with gloves)
 
zyhano said:
about all substances are.
it's -240 C, 30 degrees above absolute zero (-273 celcius)
If you got out your knife at -400, your arm would freeze off instantaneously (probably even with gloves)
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Then would your arm be as hard as diamonds?
 
zyhano said:
If you got out your knife at -400, your arm would freeze off instantaneously (probably even with gloves)
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Even if your gloves were made out of the same material as the cozies that pizza delivery drivers use to keep your pie warm?
 
GrinderMcgee said:
farting on a Forschner isn't going to bend it.
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Apparently you are not familiar with how man-ly some members here claim to be. I think some of us are know to create sonic disruptions capable of toppling buildings.

Dude, Props on some brilliant alliteration! That is sig-worthy.
 
I used my Busse Game Warden to chip off pieces of this ice berg for cocktails. No damage, but its a Busse! :cool:

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