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Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier. Pykrete has some interesting properties, notably its relatively slow melting rate (because of low thermal conductivity), and its vastly improved strength and toughness over unmodified (crystalline) ice; it is closer in form to concrete.

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Pykrete ... or, The Myth that Wouldn't Die... Pykrete ... or, The Myth that Wouldn't Die... www.goodeveca.net/CFGoodeve/pykrete.html - Web

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