Hi

How hard is it to walk on, for example, olive oil vs ice? Talking about cooking oil not motor oil but either way.

Shower thoughts

Both oil and ice can be slippery, but this is where the similarity ends. Oil and ice have very little in common. Actually, oil doesn't like ice, or more specifically melted ice, water. Oil is known as hydrophobic, meaning that it repels water. When you put the ice cube in the oil it begins to melt. It doesn't mix with the oil because oil is hydrophobic. This explains why the oil and water don't blend together, but this doesn't explain why the water goes to the bottom of the cup and why the ice floats at the top of the cup. This is all comes back to density, or how much stuff is in an object. If something is denser than something else, it will sink. Water is denser than oil; that's why water sinks to the bottom of the glass. Ice, however, is a funny solid. When water freezes and turns to ice, it actually takes up more space than it did when it was water, but it has the same amount of stuff in it. This means it is less dense than water. That's why ice cubes float in your water glass. Since ice is less dense than water, the water settles to the bottom. Since the ice is less dense than water and therefore less dense than oil, it floats at the top.

STRONG first post, thanks. So since they are pretty similar friction wise, I would guess oil is worse in a different way because once it gets on your shoes you can't just step out of it onto a dry surface like you can with ice. I was just thinking like as an area denial thing, like if you are being chased for example and you had some time if oil would be harder to walk on that ice.