{"id":713,"date":"2015-11-09T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/?p=713"},"modified":"2015-11-13T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:10:42","slug":"why-does-skin-get-stuck-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/why-does-skin-get-stuck-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does skin get stuck on ice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve seen it in movies, on TV and even in real life. It can be just an embarrassing situation or it can turn into something really painful. Here is the question:\u00a0Why do the tongue and the skin get stuck on ice?\u00a0<\/strong>The ITV-Ice Makers blog brings you the answer.<\/p>\n

If you have experienced this in the street, with a streetlight pole or with an ice block, the experience can be disgusting. Nevertheless you are more likely to have experienced your tongue stuck on ice\u00a0at home or at a restaurant with the ice cubes from a drink.<\/strong>\u00a0You can even experience it with your fingers when serving the ice cubes. The very skin can act as a temporary adhesive.<\/p>\n

This phenomenon is produced because, commonly,\u00a0our skin has a thin and imperceptible layer of water vapour,<\/strong>\u00a0produced by moisture and sweat, which is responsible for getting us \u00a0stuck on ice<\/strong>. In the case of the tongue, moisture is produced by salivation. To soften this problem, the best solution is to count on the state-of-the-art machines produced by ITV-Ice Makers and to avoid using the common freezer.<\/p>\n

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Dry ice\u00a0<\/strong>is always guilty for getting us stuck on it. A typical example is an ice cream or an ice cube we take out from a home freezer at -18\u00b0C and a very dry environment.\u00a0When it gets in contact with our skin, at 37\u00b0C, the water and vapour layers freeze right away and shortly,<\/strong>\u00a0which is what gets us stuck. After a while, room temperature and our skin temperature melt the ice and we are released.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0case of emergency<\/strong>\u00a0and when this happens in a colder environment and tongue and skin won’t get released, this are the\u00a0<\/strong>steps to be followed:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Try to release it carefully after waiting for some minutes\u00a0<\/strong>for the temperature to balance.<\/li>\n
  2. If you cannot get released, you can\u00a0pour warm water\u00a0<\/strong>so that it doesn’t freeze.<\/li>\n
  3. If the previous step is not possible due to cold temperatures,\u00a0try to generate heat:<\/strong>a scarf, a piece of cloth, a pair of gloves or covering your hands with your sleeves. Then rub close to the tongue for obtaining heat and being able to\u00a0melt the ice.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. If you have been stuck for too much time, ask your\u00a0<\/strong>chemist or your doctor<\/strong>\u00a0for possible damage to the skin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    We’ve seen it in movies, on TV and even in real life. It can be just an embarrassing situation or it can turn into something really painful. Here is the question:\u00a0Why do the tongue and the skin get stuck on ice?\u00a0The ITV-Ice Makers blog brings you the answer. If you have experienced this in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,241],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itv.es\/icemakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}