Exciting Ice Experiment

After the experiment to see which water froze first we tried another icey test. We put an ice cube in a bowl of water and tried to pick it up just using a length of red cotton......impossible we thought. Then we sprinkled salt on the top of the ice cube and tried again. Surprisingly the cotton moved the ice cube a little. It was enough of a lift that we put more salt on the cube and left it for a few seconds. Sure enough we could lift the ice cube. We were pretty excited!!!!