Ice Material Science

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) takes on highly interdisciplinary research areas that are of critical importance to military operations. ERDC’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory is at the forefront of research that’s supporting the Department of Defense’s Arctic Strategy and capabilities in areas such as mobility and extreme cold weather operations.
To better help the military achieve mission success in the Arctic’s extreme environment, ERDC has been focused on the region’s primary challenge, ice. An interdisciplinary team of researchers is now engaged in studying the material properties of ice -- examining it as both an adversary and a resource, with the objective of advancing force projection and force protection capabilities in Arctic regions.

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I think its key to consider ice in an artic, subzero, environment, as a mineral. IE. the ambient atmosphere includes exposure to this 'sticky' mineral...

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