 Iceslippery is one of the more interesting questions I think we get often times and on a basic level it really comes down to friction. So when we're walking on a carpet or a wood floor we have a pretty good contact but for some reason when we're on ice we just don't get that same level of grip basically and that causes us to slip and it causes our cars to slip and so we fall down and it's one of the more slippery substances out there. The reason ice is slippery is not because it's frozen and solid like you would think of as an ice cube but that there's a really fine layer of water sitting on top of the ice and that is acting kind of like a lubricant and it causes you to slide over that layer of ice which the frozen part is not the slippery part of it.