Editing Ice (section)

===Other uses===
[[File:Ice_sculptor_at_work_(12714055883).jpg|thumb|Carving an ice sculpture]]
==== As thermal ballast ====
* Ice is still used to cool and preserve food in portable [[cooler]]s.<ref name="Prewitt2023">{{Cite web |last1=Prewitt |first1=Laura |date=23 July 2023 |title=A Chilling History |url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/collections/blog/a-chilling-history/ |publisher=[[Science History Institute]] |language=en |access-date=26 April 2024 }}</ref>
*[[Ice cube]]s or [[crushed ice]] can be used to cool drinks. As the ice melts, it absorbs heat and keeps the drink near {{convert|0|C}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bramen |first1=Lisa |date=12 August 2011 |title=Why Don't Other Countries Use Ice Cubes? |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-dont-other-countries-use-ice-cubes-50361097/ |access-date=26 April 2024 |publisher=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |language=en}}</ref>
* Ice can be used as part of an [[Ice storage air conditioning|air conditioning system]], using battery- or [[solar power|solar-powered]] fans to blow hot air over the ice. This is especially useful during [[heat wave]]s when power is out and standard (electrically powered) air conditioners do not work.<ref>{{cite web |date=4 May 2017 |title=California utility augments 1,800 air conditioning units with "ice battery" |url=https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/ice-batteries-commissioned-by-utility-will-cool-california-businesses/ |website=[[Ars Technica]] }}</ref>
* Ice can be used (like other [[cold pack]]s) to reduce swelling (by decreasing blood flow) and pain by pressing it against an area of the body.<ref>{{cite book | title=The U.S. Navy Seal Guide to Fitness and Nutrition | first1=Patricia A. | last1=Deuster | first2=Anita | last2=Singh | first3=Pierre A. | last3=Pelletier | publisher=Skyhorse Publishing Inc. | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-60239-030-0 | page=117 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3P038jE18BwC&pg=PT117 }}</ref>

==== As structural material ====
[[File:USNS Southern Cross at the ice pier in 1983.jpg|thumb|Ice pier during 1983 cargo operations. [[McMurdo Station]], Antarctica.]]
* Engineers used the substantial strength of pack ice when they constructed Antarctica's first floating [[ice pier]] in 1973.<ref>[http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/pastIssues/2005-2006/2006_01_08.pdf#page=3 "Unique ice pier provides harbor for ships"], {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110223145229/http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/pastIssues/2005-2006/2006_01_08.pdf |date=23 February 2011 }} Antarctic Sun. 8 January 2006; McMurdo Station, Antarctica.</ref> Such ice piers are used during cargo operations to load and offload ships. Fleet operations personnel make the floating pier during the winter. They build upon naturally occurring frozen seawater in [[McMurdo Sound]] until the dock reaches a depth of about {{convert|22|ft|m}}. Ice piers are inherently temporary structures, although some can last as long as 10 years. Once a pier is no longer usable, it is towed to sea with an icebreaker.<ref>{{cite web |date=10 February 2023 |title=Ocean Disposal of Man-Made Ice Piers |url=https://www.epa.gov/ocean-dumping/ocean-disposal-man-made-ice-piers |publisher=[[United States Environmental Protection Agency|U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701024353/https://www.epa.gov/ocean-dumping/ocean-disposal-man-made-ice-piers |archive-date=1 July 2023 }}</ref>
[[File:Castello di neve in lapponia 02 (2108559776).jpg|thumb|An ice-made dining room of the [[Kemi]]'s [[SnowCastle of Kemi|SnowCastle]] [[ice hotel]] in [[Finland]]]]
* Structures and [[ice sculpture]]s are built out of large chunks of ice or by spraying water<ref name="Makkonen, L. 1994">Makkonen, L. (1994) "Ice and Construction". E & FN Spon, London. {{ISBN|0-203-62726-1}}.</ref> The structures are mostly ornamental (as in the case with [[Ice palace|ice castle]]s), and not practical for long-term habitation. [[Ice hotel]]s exist on a seasonal basis in a few cold areas.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Brien |first=Harriet |date=19 January 2007 |title=Ice Hotels: Cold comforts |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/ice-hotels-cold-comforts-432813.html |access-date=26 May 2024 }}</ref> [[Igloo]]s are another example of a temporary structure, made primarily from snow.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cruickshank |first=Dan |date=2 April 2008 |title=What house-builders can learn from igloos |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7326031.stm |access-date=26 May 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311170506/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7326031.stm |archive-date=11 March 2009 }}</ref> 
* Engineers can also use ice to destroy. In [[mining]], drilling holes in rock structures and then pouring water during cold weather is an accepted alternative to using [[dynamite]], as the rock cracks when the water expands as ice.<ref name="Akyurt2002" />
* During World War II, [[Project Habbakuk]] was an Allied programme which investigated the use of [[pykrete]] (wood fibers mixed with ice) as a possible material for warships, especially aircraft carriers, due to the ease with which a vessel immune to torpedoes, and a large deck, could be constructed by ice. A small-scale prototype was built,<ref>Gold, L.W. (1993). "The Canadian Habbakuk Project: a Project of the National Research Council of Canada". International Glaciological Society. {{ISBN|0946417164}}.</ref> but it soon turned out the project would cost far more than a conventional aircraft carrier while being many times slower and also vulnerable to melting.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.goodeveca.net/CFGoodeve/habakkuk.html |title=The Ice Ship Fiasco |author=Sir Charles Goodeve |journal=Evening Standard |location=London |date=19 April 1951 }}</ref> 
* Ice has even been used as the material for a variety of musical instruments, for example by percussionist [[Terje Isungset]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/cj63 | title=Terje Isungset Iceman Is Review | publisher=BBC Music | author=Talkington, Fiona | date=3 May 2005 | access-date=24 May 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924045635/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/cj63 | archive-date=24 September 2013 }}</ref>