Supercooling Experiment 3

[jasonjslam]

bob0rama — February 26, 2007 — Making frozen drinks has never been easier. Supercooled water turns to slush on contact, ushering in a new era of mixology?

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[williammyth]

ohhh put on a cap that has holes poked in it and squeeze it onto people and see what happens haha.

[Charles240693]

how did you do that ??

[wowimcool27]

how does it work?

[matthewrox40]

try drinking it ROFL!!

[minhmeo1209]

Can someone explain to me what happened

[sportagus3]

that would be worng!! shoot some water in your friends face and it freezes on contact!

[clugalugs]

wow- he had bare hands in that- wooow

[iloveapple092]

how does that work? is it really cold?

[Akolyte01]

This only works with distilled water correct?

[Vereschagin21]

supercooling is like cloud formation, when it reaches the water reaches the dew point all it needs is an impurity like sticking pasta in a pot of boiling water. water molecules need something to form around. thats what my science teacher told us anyway

[Particleking]

better than #1 and #2 put together - still awsome.

[JRod1745]

how long did u have it out there? or how long do i need to?

[Psychofear]

This + Supersoaker = Children fleeing in horror.

It could work. Try putting a supersoaker with pure water in a fridge and carefully take it out. but it would have to be pressurized with air before supercooling, only granting you on shot. USE IT WISELY.

[oliviapaxton1988]

how did you do thaat!! i waant too kooww! i have a science fair in one week!

[bullahair]

wow..sweet!!!

[benderboyscott]

its -16c, my bet is that the reason its not frozen in the first place is because it needs a catylist so when the water touches the ice, it freezes

is that right?

[AnimatedSimDesigns]

Man it would be so funny if you pretended you were freezing.

[sk8rboi5554]

how long did u have to freeze that?

[soloxcivic]

your hand would be frozen if it was that cold nice trick but didnt work on me

[heheomg1hehe1]

how do u make it freeze like that?

[Burn8604]

u just used sodium acetate correct?

[SurpriseItzDJBen]

ITS NOT SODIUM ACETATE! Its plain water. Whoever doesnt believe this, is ignorant

[kaosproftw]

Would someone please explain this to me?

[trinkCOKEorDIE]

love the bells in background =D

[Togorama]

awesome!!how do u do that

[pyroboytodumax]

:D that would be sweet shoot it at some one and it freezez in mide air then hits them or freeze on them fun

[whatyouare818]

how do you keep the water from freezing before you poor it out??

[onemancapacity1]

how do you make the ice crystals????

[Swedemanfletch]

how do u get it to -16 without freezing it?

[xXDylanXx13]

i dont get how u make it

[54spiritedwill54]

Dihydrogen monoxide...yes water is dangerous o.O

[zi0]

can this be done with normal water?

[popraulstefan]

ok....can somebody explain how to do that??

[2heen]

what happens if one drinks the supercooled beverage?

[myskate12]

OMG!@!!!!!!!!!!!!

its supersaturations not fucking freezing!!!

[anythingfunni]

dude thats soo ausome how did u do it

p.s. can u email me n tell me how

of just like yea do sumthing

[sccr19pnk]

how do u get it so cold. dont use big words

[redeyesthe20th]

no it wouldn't work, im 100% sure.

[aeroscope]

how do you make it?!?!?!

[123094pop]

how do you do that?

[mynameeminem]

that wouldnt work the sodium acetate would react to the movment through the gun freezing on the inside of the gun....

[emem2012]

How do you "supercool" something??

[emem2012]

How do you "supercool" something??

[sweetchoco98]

If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours

[joe12521]

what did u use i want to trick my brother and sisters :)

[jackanator5]

looks like sodium acetate

[sticky494]

how do you get the tempurature so low?

[Weddze]

drink it

[Polarbearfan1997]

awesome!

[mckman31]

So can you drink the frozen stuff? And is it that cold outside or is there chemicals involved the "super cooling"? Do you know what would happen if that stuff went into your eyes? FROZEN EYES SWEET!

[Aratharn]

that would be very fun indeed jajaja

[AaronA10]

should actualy try and see if you can freeze your finger in it lol

[monsimand]

how u do that

[animeROCKS1111]

omg dats so cool i mean i could try dat but i live i hawaii & it doesnt snow hear but i could always go big island!!!????=D=D=D=D=D

[papermario1995]

HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU DO THAT???

[earweeno]

i dont get it

[wesley1125]

That's Ice-9 and they just started the end of the world. I'm gonna go rob a bank.

[lilserge911]

but If you leave it the freezer for like

2 1/2 hours would the tap water freeze solid because of being in the freezer so long. How do you get supercooled water?

[ieyzuro]

Holy crap! Great idea!

[iskador]

people who think hes faking it are idiots infact the same thing can happen with rain and can be quiet bad because 4" can form on telephone lines and snap them

[XxLittlegem223xX]

~*Oh wooow!*~

[devildude122]

how'd you do it? wouldnt it freeze if it was outside?

[Kazi38]

How do you get it so cold that it doesnt freeze?

[spidermonkeycole]

nice wind chimes

[jimausman]

This happens to my beer all the time, if I put it in the freezer, then leave it too long and then pour it into a glass.

[fizikonline]

cool!!! :)

[Bone303]

coooooooooooooool !!!!! Thats reeally cool

5 stars

[virgil101121212]

Why does everyone think its Sodium Acetate?? Maybe if u were fucken smart enough u wud understand the concept of Super Cooling.. Dumb assholes. Give the guy sum respect this is awesome? Props man!!

[JayKat0410]

that looks like sodium acetate disolved in water... infact it looks exactly the same.

[Evilshonen]

Add salt to it, watch what happens.

[esseeayen]

its called sodium acetate, its a super saturated solution of it. its the same thing in those heating packs with the little metal activator. because the freezing point it at 52C it is technically supercooled at room temperature. When he pours it out, it starts the first crystals to form which starts a chain reaction.

[pluckingclovers]

no actually it isnt sodium acetate its just water thats it

[denten007]

its distilled water with no impurities so the water doesn't freeze around a point and cools way below 0c. when it comes into contact with something it freezes rapidly. you can also heat it above 100c and watch it "explode" when it hits something

[abctiffany]

what was that stuff that you sprinkled into the bottle. Is that stuff poisonous? Like, could be harmful if it were put into an animal???

[carolinaac1]

Dihydrogen monoxide is VERY dangerous, don't you dare to try it on animals!

[nightmare7909]

o ya that H20 is a real killer, old joke

[haxengaged]

I remember when people freaked out about this it was so funny.

[GOghetto]

why? you will try it on them? poor animals which are around you!!!!!

[ironskull79]

how does that work?

[gaara908070]

thats kool how u do it?

[ratchetxilla23]

i wish i knew how e does this

[Searyu]

if u pour this on a frog or mouse and it freezes instantly, and you keep it frozen (by some method)for a million years, will it still be alive when the ice melts?

[buddyzee]

you should test that theory. in a million years let me know.

[bob0rama]

( Preferably on himself? ) I'd imagine you would just have a very irritated mouse and / or frog.

[trebuchet65]

the outside of it freezes instantly, the rest freezes to death slowly

[SemperFiKid]

acutally with some frogs yesyou see tehy freeze during the winter and stay frozen for many years but then when they freeze their organs shut down and when the defrost they start back up again

[alexcwagner]

So when the water starts to crystallize, does the water/ice/slush mix warm up to the normal freezing/melting point of 0 degC?

[bob0rama]

Yes, thats exactly what happens. The resulting slush is at 0C, nearly 20C WARMER than the supercooled water.

[superninjaducky]

my dad doesnt beleave any of this stuff nomatter what i tell him so i will show him later today.

[IITheBakerII]

thats awesome, i've done it with a gatorade... it froze as i was drinking it, and none of my family believed me...

but how do u do it with water??

[99hesoe]

Once had my tongue stuck in a bottle... some of my "friends" had supercooled it and i tried to drink it... it froze... fast... but it only lasted like 10 secs...

[ToastedWaffles]

....why did you stick your tongue in a bottle while drinking it? o_O

[jxman454]

whoa, that was cool

[sifagaloa]

how come the water doesn't expand when it freezes? Shouldn't it expand by like 30 some percent?

[bob0rama]

Water doesn't expand 30%. The density of ice is ~0.917g/cc where water is ~1.000g/cc, an 8% increase in volume. Only about 10-25% of the water is converted to ice. So the volume change would be about 2%, i.e. unnoticable. Below 0C, the density of water increases as it gets colder, so the water's volume decreaases as it goesd from -20C to 0C. :-)

[sifagaloa]

thanks, I heard somewhere it's volume went up a lot, but I guess I was wrong, but still, that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen!!!

[FlipBalla23]

how did u make the water freeze i dun get it

[Keaterpeter]

what? lol

[bob0rama]

Liquid nitrogen boils when it contacts anything, well anything hotter than 77K, which is most things in my basement. Pouring out liquid nitrogen and having it turn to slush would, indeed, be a neat trick. Feel free and do that.

[fable815]

its called liquid nitrogen

[ThatOneZombiePerson]

LOL you are so stupid!

[Eveningsta]

Dihydrogen monoxide...yes water is dangerous o.O

[xjennnnx]

Freakin cool! (lol)

I had this happen to me with a bottle of Carbonated water, I took it out of the freezer, and It was the coldest drink I've ever had! Total slush- soooo good

[BiggAdd]

Dihydrogen Monoxide is pretty dangerous stuff. It can cause severe burns, pretty much the biggest factor in Acid Rain, and if inhaled can be deadly.

And this stuff is known to be in oceans, rivers, lakes ponds. You'll even find it coming out of your shower head and taps. Now thats scary.

[EclipseWebJS]

What is that stuff?

[bob0rama]

Dihydrogen Monoxide

[aaronfargo76]

This just happened to me at work- bottle of "hint" flavored water in a mini fridge. Took it out and it was freezing cold (but still liquid) -had a sip- put lid back on and shook it up a bit to mix the flavor- it instantly turned to ice. Took me by suprise- so I youtubed it and found your video. Crazy.

[aussie114]

were do you get this super water?

[bob0rama]

Walmart... its Sam's Choice drinking water.

[bob0rama]

No, its reverse osmosis processed water, and has less that 20ppm of disolved solids. Its 99.998% pure. Sea water, by contract, is only 96.5% water.

However the propigation of the dendritic crystal growth slows as the salinity of the remaining water increases. But in the video, you see a uniform growth of crystals all the way to the bottom. If there were significant levels of salts, it would slow signifcantly as the growth reaches the bottom as in other videos where brine was used.

[InsoraX]

its stilll salted water.... cold salted water

[abcdefgdfgdvcxzfwf]

wat is dat cheamicals reactin? or something

[sixpackdragon]

holy crap shudnt u be inside where the fire is!

[Tyman94]

omg!

[Xtrmn8r123321]

When the slush reached the top of the bottle i knew you were screwed!

[gregalabama]

its cold out there!

[Kilerchuk]

-16C isnt that cold

[Rufio80]

That's not the point. Water freezes at 0 deg usually right, so the point is that this water has been cooled to below 0 deg without freezing.