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Trying to Make Unbreakable Ice (Even Better Pykrete)
Season 12
Episode 3
I spent three months of my life trying to figure out pykrete—basically ice with wood pulp mixed in—how it works and how I could make it better. I still don’t know how it works, but I definitely made it better. And to prove it, I went to the top of the American Chemical Society building to push blocks of ice off the side.
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