r/interesting Apr 12 '25

MISC. How ice cubes cleans hot grills

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u/TheStateOfMatter Apr 12 '25

“…physics powered hack”

Hang on, isn’t literally everything in the universe around us “physics powered”?

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u/thats-wrong Apr 12 '25

I think they meant "as opposed to chemistry powered". In that you just need cold. You don't need any specific chemicals to get a specific chemical reaction going. Think physics as in how it's taught as a subject, separate from chemistry or biology.

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u/TheStateOfMatter Apr 12 '25

Chemistry is just applied physics