How to make a perfect snowball for snowball fight

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The minimum members are seven competitors, two alternate players and one director, and the time limit per game is three minutes, three sets match,International rulesIt is a snowball fight that is getting hooked when doing nothing serious game though it is set as it is. SuchInternationally popular sports"How to make a perfect snowball" that seems to be useful in the snowball fightPopular ScienceIt is summarized.

FYI: How Do You Make The Perfect Snowball? | Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-01/fyi-how-do-you-make-perfect-snowball


First of all, do not use powdered snow. As soon as you try to make snowballs from powdery snow, it will fall apart, but if you use snow that started to melt, it will become a mass of ice making snowballs easier to make. In other words, the best point to make a perfect snowball is to find snow that melted moderately for snowballs.

According to Jordy Hendrikx, director of the Institute of Snow and Avalanche at the University of Montana, there is no water under freezing conditions. And when a little ice began to melt,MeniscusForm. According to Mr. Hendrikx, this meniscus is the part that plays the role of clinging the snow that was scattered and freezing again.

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Also, NASA's Scott Sandford points out that putting extreme pressure on snow is also a key point in making snowballs. "Does it melt if I grasp ice confection strongly?" He explains. When pressure is given to the limit to the limit and made spherical, the snow re-frozen after liquefaction, but this method can only be done in the universe or in the laboratory. Therefore, in the case of a casual snowball fight to be done on the earth, it is possible to melt the surface of snow moderately and refreeze by grasping the snow with a spherical shape. Is it better to grasp the snowball with bare hands? Sandford commented that "There are few differences, I think that it would be better for gloves to do it is not cold and the sense of the hand will not paralyze."

There are various other ways to make perfect snowballs.

How to Make the Perfect Snowball: 5 steps - wikiHow
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-the-Perfect-Snowball


How to Make a Perfect Snowball | The Art of Manliness
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/11/30/how-to-make-the-perfect-snowball/


How To Make the Perfect Snowball
http://www.howtodothings.com/family-and-relationships/a4299-how-to-make-the-perfect-snowball.html


In addition to detailed points such as using gloves with 4 fingers instead of mittens, using snow in the deep part instead of the surface, making the snowball when the air temperature is around 0 degrees and the air is not dry, bare hands Some articles recommended to grasp, but it seems that it is impossible to exclude only two points "finding good snow melting moderately" and "grasping firmly with hands". If you immerse the snowball in the water just because the snow will solidify, it will become a mass of ice rather than a snowball and it is very dangerous, let's stop it.