Why Ice Cream Feels Icy Yet Does Not Harm Your Tongue
The same frozen water that can burn your tongue as an ice cube turns almost polite when it appears as ice cream. The reason lies in a finely tuned micro‑architecture in which fat droplets, air pockets and tiny ice crystals form a kind of thermal landscape that the nervous system reads very differently from solid ice.In a hard ice cube, heat flows quickly from your tongue into a continuous block of...More
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