How to Make a Sword Out of Ice and Toilet Paper

As you already know , ice is brickle stuff and nonsense , which makes it regretful for app like stab fruit or beer posterior . Add a fiddling woods pulp , sawdust , or in this showcase , toilet newspaper , and you ’re cook with a whole Modern nub calledpykrete .

Pykrete , despite mostly being water ice , has some odd property — notably a slower melting rate and a immensely increased malleable strength — that give it more practical uses that obviously old frozen water . It can be decant into molds the same as concrete , but like wood it can also be cut and machined . The substance is identify for English inventor Geoffrey Pyke who think the stuff could be used to build anaircraft carrierduring World War II .

Although there are pretty limited uses for a means that has to stay at or below freezing , at least YouTuberSufficiently Advancedhas finally reach his ambition of building an ice sword .