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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Every year, 20 million tons of salt are dumped on roads and highways across the U.S. to eliminate ice. And airlines spray up to 1,000 gallons of antifreeze on any one plane to de-ice it. But now scientists have come up with what might be a more environmentally friendly alternative.
"We've often heard the expression, 'It's time to fight fire with fire.' Well I think now it's time to fight ice with ice." Jonathan Boreyko studies fluid mechanics at Virginia Tech.
And what he means by that is: if ice growth is inevitable, why not design certain areas of plane wings or roads or HVAC systems specifically to attract ice...to control the chaos, and keep ice-forming moisture away from the rest of the surface? In other words, use ice itself...as antifreeze.

To test the idea, he and his team used lasers to cut tiny grooves into aluminum surfaces. Those grooves, once filled with water and frozen, turned into tiny stripes of ice, which indeed kept the rest of the surface 80 to 90 percent frost-free, even in incredibly humid cold air.
"What's happening is the ice striped areas are just so attractive to the moisture, that it kind of tractor beams all the moisture that's going to the surface towards the striped regions preferentially, such that the intermediate areas, if you design it right, just stay completely dry."
You can find the results and some cool time-lapse videos in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Boreyko and his team have already patented the tech. If it proves viable after more R&D, it might make our wintertime fight against frost a lot more environmentally friendly.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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“冰条区域对水汽有非常大的吸引力，以致于它就像牵引光束一样，使所有奔向表面的水汽都优先前往冰条区，如果设计正确，那这些媒介区可让其余表面保持完全干燥fCgR@lWWcV。”
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谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学Q^BOD*AuOJ2D。我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔gTv@]p6M;B-WsgR(r;Cp。

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重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. come up with 想出，提出(计划、想法等)；
The president was moved to come up with these suggestions after the hearings.
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2. in other words 换言之；换句话说；也就是说；
A common saying goes, "Knit the brows and you will hit upon a stratagem." In other words, much thinking yields wisdom.
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3. use as 用作；
You can't keep using your bad back as an excuse.
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4. turn into (使)变成；(使)成为；
Our dream holiday turned into a nightmare.
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