Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - How to make ice cubes?

How to make ice cubes?

1. Take a special mold for making ice cubes, wash it and dry it for later use.

2. Prepare a cup of pure water or cold boiled water.

3. Pour the water into the ice cube of the mold, and be careful not to pour it too full. Cover the mold and put it in the frozen layer.

4. According to the freezing time of your refrigerator, take it out and gently tap the back of the ice, and the ice will fall out!

Ice is a transparent hexagonal crystal structure. Pure water will freeze at 0℃ under normal atmospheric pressure. If water contains impurities, the freezing point of water will decrease with the increase of pressure, and the melting point of ice is the freezing point of water. With the increase of atmospheric pressure, the melting point of ice will also increase.

The use of refrigeration equipment, so that modern people enjoy the "clear" blessing, but also to deal with common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases in summer to provide a convenient drug, which is ice. 《? The description of ice cubes in Compendium of Materia Medica is: "Ice is sweet and cold, non-toxic, and is mainly used to relieve summer heat, heat swelling, polydipsia and summer heat poison." Specifically, ice cubes have the following functions.