How is an artificial ice rink built?
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Artificial rinks can  be made in cold climates by enclosing a level area of ground, filling it with water, and letting it freeze.\nWith the pipes cold, a thin layer of water is sprayed on the sand or concrete to seal and level it (or in the case of concrete, to keep it from being marked). \nThis thin layer is painted white or pale blue, for better contrast; markings necessary for hockey or curling are also placed, along with logos or other decorations. \nAnother thin layer of water is sprayed atop this. \nThe ice is built up to a thickness of 2-3 centimetres by repeated flows of water onto the surface. \nPeriodically after the ice has been used, it is resurfaced using a machine called an ice resurfacer. For curling, the surface is 'pebbled' by allowing loose drops of cold water to fall onto the ice and freeze into rounded peaks.
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Hockey (A PUCK IS A BALL)
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What's "natural"?  If you can find enough raw materials (and have the time and knowledge) to make a vacuum pump, you could make ice anyplace.  Or if you knew enough chemistry to make ammonia, you might be able to build a simnple refigerator.  But there's nothing as simple for making ice as the Boy Scouts' rubbing-two-sticks-together method of making fire.
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There is geometry involved in the patterns of the skates on the ice.  Physics involves math...the amount of friction and motion over the ice.
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You could always use it as a swimming pool if it turns out the ice isn't so sturdy...\n\nThat shouldn't cost much, just dig a hole, put water in it, and some ice cubes. Wait for the winter.
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Icing in ice hockey occurs when a player shoots the puck across both the red line and the opposing team's goal line without the puck going into the net. When icing occurs, a linesman stops play. Play is resumed with a faceoff in the defending zone of the team that committed the infraction.
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You can go ice skating at the Raleigh Ice Plex.\n\nCheck out the website- http://www.iceplex.com/
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Around 15-20 minutes. Depending on how much time it takes for promotional events and flooding the ice.
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Buy a "backyard ice rink" kit. I've seen these advertised in hockey magazines like the USA Hockey members magazine. They are easily found on the web as well. If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you will minimally need to put together some kind of frame and potentially lay out plastic to keep the water from seeping into the ground.  If you have a natural depression in your yard (as was the case with my dirt driveway when growing up) and you don't care about the shape of your rink you could just fill it with water when it gets cold enough.  You can't get much cheaper than that!
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its used to smooth and ice surface for sports and entertainment, mainly hockey and figure skating.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_rink#Dimensions\n\n_
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3 people. 1 ice rink. 2 brooms. 1 curling stone.\n1 person throws curling stone from starting line.\nOther 2 sweep in front of stone to make it go faster.\nTry to knock opponets stons out of ring that you are aiming from.\n\n\nyes, it`s a useless but highly entertaining game!
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call a local concreat company and let him know it is for a community arena and ask him for this info.  They will probably give you a general idea.
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It's not fake snow.  It depends on the temperature, amount of sunlight hitting the snow, etc.  At high altitudes like where the Olympics are the temperatures are lower, causing a dry, hard snow more like ice.  The grooming machines pack it down for competition and it becomes a hard, compacted surface, similar to a sheet of ice.  After about 10-15 racers ski over the same line and the sun hits the snow, it turns to ice.
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You of course need to add heat in five separate steps:\n\n1.  Heat the ice from -20C to 0C\n2.  Melt the ice at 0C\n3.  Heat the water from 0C to 100C\n4.  Boil the water at 100C\n5.  Heat the steam to 120C\n\nThe last step (5.) will depend on whether the steam is saturated at an elevated pressure or superheated at one atmosphere which you don't specify.\n\nThe rest is pure calculation using the values for specific heat for ice, water and steam plus the latent heat of freezing (reversed) and the latent heat for evaporation.  Engineers would use a steam table or charts to evalute the steam portion of the problem.
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sawdust act like a insulation and keep the ice cooler longer
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It looks like they currently have figure skating available, but not much else. I imagine it won't be long before they have everything.