Flash Frozen: Weird science from St. Joseph Island, Canada

[BRANCATO111]

Why didn't the bottle tare with the expanding ice formation? (Water expands when it freezes).

[phawkyoutoo]

Dude, Ive been doing this for years with Smirnoff Ice Black and even before that with the old Zima straight out of the freezer. Been there, done that!!

[RoyalDragonusa]

I don't buy it. I can put a water bottle in the freezer right now, and it will freeze. It won't stay melted untillI shake it. There is something in his water that is chemically changing it.

[naseoj]

"Phenomena" is PLURAL. "Phenomenon" = SINGULAR. Get it right people.

[preacher581]

@naseoj thanks for the note - now i know

[naseoj]

@preacher581 Oh geez I totally forgot that I wrote this. Sorry for being a jerk about it. must have been a bad day.

[rajsaxena2525]

It is called supercooled water. If the water is extremely pure, as in has very little to no particulate in the water, there will not be any nucleation sites in the liquid, which is required to start the freezing process. Once the bottle is shaken or disturbed, air bubbles introduced to the liquid will act as nucleation sites around which the water will begin freezing. Once it begins freezing, the ice will spread until the entire bottle is frozen.

[whistledink]

11 people's brains have been flash-frozen.

[starfish2344]

i've done this with water and mtn dew, because i was trying to get that slushy effect. never knew it was a phenomenon

[caaasper1]

Plain bottle of water, I dont think so! My bet is it is a supersaturated solution of sodium acetate. He is wearing gloves because it got really hot after the sodium acetate crashed out of solution. Another problem solved by science! Go back to Chem 101!

[dennismajor1]

It may be the air bubbles that starts the formation of ice crystals or it may be that this type of plastic fractures or splinters quite easily and the ice formed around the spinters.

On that same point, you likely don't want to drink water from a bottle of this type that has either frozen and thawed or spent a hot day in a truck for example as the plastic bottle will likely have all kinds of microscopic fractures in it that will have released toxic materials into the once pure water.

[EVRYMANaKING]

Only one explanation possible...THE WARLOCK CHARLIE SHEEN !!!!!!!!!

[jonnois]

seriously, its supercooling, you can do it at home at home in your freezer

[djamotube]

WITCH!

[lewandlo]

Try this.......slowly open the bottle then drink it fast ...will it freeze in your throat? It would plug up your throat and you would die heheheh. It`s called flash dieing. heheheh

[paladin1352]

This works with those Fla-Vor-Ice frozen pops. Just roll up like 10 of them, make sure the middle one isn't dented or bent, and leave it overnight. Then the next day take it out and flick it. BAM! Ice.

[brianbct007]

Its because the waters pure unlike tap water in lakes, mythbusters BITCH!!!!

[dnguyrn90]

basic material science. get educated.

[TheMMray]

Hate to say it but FAKE look up hot ice the you will be enlightened :)

[TCIstuff]

this is how you check if your water has impurities in canada lol xD

[ruzaruzaruza]

Use superpure or distilled water; with tapwater or ordinary bottled water it's hard to avoid there being any impurities to act as seeds for the ice crystals. I last week managed to minor burns on my hand with superheated coffee. I'd re-heated a cup of coffee in the micro, I took the cup out, and when I dropped sugar in it, it flash-boiled over the rim of the cup.

[KingRockets]

lol wow this guy acting like he discovered this. this shits been around for decades.

[goozbaghali]

You can do the same thing with a beer bottle and your freezer. Just put a beer bottle in a freezer for 15-20 minutes. Then tap the bottle...and VOILA , you'll have flash frozen beer. In my opinion frozen beer is cooler than water.

[bloodsling]

@goozbaghali might be cooler,rather freeze the water than waste a beer though :P

[TheLifeTour]

science....it works bitches

[kmckia]

SCIENCEEEE

[TheGeorge4man]

This happens because the water particles are undisturbed but the slightest tap will disturb the particles and cause them to contract rapidly. You can see this in one of house hold hackers latest videos.

[Icix1]

Bottled water != tap water/fresh water/sea water

[baldes]

simple little bubble of air :D

[FannySMUDGE]

WHY DOES THIS VIDEO TAKE 30 SECONDS TO GET TO ANYTHING WORTHY?!

[herecticdragon]

thats NOT supercooling. its just the fact that the water while not moving does not have enough nucleating sites to cool. once the air is introduced, the particles in the air create nucleating sites for the water to freeze

[theschinnersshow]

RON SCHINNERS FOR MAYOR!!

[wterrill]

This is a troll video. It is supercooling... but not of water. Instead, it's a solution of Sodium Acetate. The biggest key is that the water bottle should have broken or distended if it were 'real' ice. Check out this video that explains how to do it. Search for 'how to make hot ice' here on youtube.

[XXIstCenturyBoy]

@wterrill Nah, it's water. It doesn't become a block of ice, it's more like a Slushie than ice, that's why the bottle doesn't break.

[wterrill]

@XXIstCenturyBoy Yes. It is water... with Sodium Acetate in it. :) it's called 'hot ice' annnnd... it's awesome!

[theMooseinny]

with motion water will freeze at 32 degrees ,without motion water wont freeze at 32 degrees ,I did that years ago while making ice cream ,and water froze in an instant because it was put in motion and the atoms clung to them selves and formed a solid mass -you can do it yourself by putting ice and salt around a container of water and put a thermomter in it and once motion is applied it freezes solid quickly a simple experiment from my youth

[fr3d420]

fucking madonna? wat the fuck

[XXIstCenturyBoy]

@fr3d420 Celine Dion wasn't available.

[bloolouboyle]

This is freaking me out---I did this on Thursday night--I have side compartments on my Chevy Avalanche -where the bottle was --and I took it out while putting in gas. I was suprised when I saw that it wasn't frozen. I was holding it 5 seconds later and watched it turn to solid ice!!! I thought it was the wind or the heat from my hand -I couldn't believe it !!!

[kendo512]

Accidentally did that with a bottle of Coke one day. It was awesome, instant frozen coke!

[VinL4DiN]

@mikaboshie lol.. no.

[Mikaboshie]

@VinL4DiN Feel free to read up on supercooling. It should explain everything that was seen in this video.

[dmhorus]

You can also do this with Smirnoff Ice. Just get a 6 pack of whatever flavor you like and put it in the freezer for a few hours. It will still be liquid. Then pop open the top gently (it still wont start to freeze unless you jiggle it too much) and start to pour it out and into a cup.

Watch in amazement as all the girls at the party start to 'ooooh' and 'aaaahhh' at you as the liquid freezes in mid air. Take your hand off the cup. It is now attached to the bottle via a column of frozen drink.

[ChanimalCrackers]

So what if you drink this water?

[senopahx]

Eh, I do this in my freezer all the time. It's soft, a bit like drinking a slushie.

[boylebongo]

I LOVE THAT SONG!!

[missstarsineyes]

Thermodynamics: the molecules need something to nucleate on like a surface defect, air or dirt to reduce the energy cost of changing phases.

[Psynaut00]

Great video, could only be better with the entire Evita soundtrack appended to the beginning of the video.

[monsterscarry]

Hey lets waste 26 seconds of everyones time for no freaking reason. You can also do this with beer.

[WhiteBuffalo81]

@monsterscarry shut up

[TarnowM2]

@monsterscarry shut up

[monsterscarry]

Hey lets waste 26 seconds of everyones time for no freaking reason.

[MrDosBox]

There is only one answer... Satan...

[ixylophone]

this really isn't all that puzzling...it's just supercooling. Impressive and an awesome quirk of thermodynamics, yes, but not particularly novel.

[Brianmc227]

This is called Supercooling. There is also Superheating, which is very dangerous, I believe The Mythbusters did a show on these once.

Distilled water can go past the freezing/boiling point due to the lack of impurities.

[electrodacus]

@Brianmc227 I agree with you, and is Nestle water that has very low TDS is almost distiled water.

[ruufeeooh]

maybe it has x-men jizz in it?

[Mikaboshie]

Basically, the liquid will not freeze if there is nothing for the molecules to cling to. (In this case, the air at the top). Once you turn the bottle over (Or simply shake it) the air from the top mixes in with the water and gives the liquid something to form ice with.

[pyVlad]

@Mikaboshie Doesn't that require really pure water?

[LightCodeDemonH]

@Mikaboshie using this bit o' knowledege does that mean there could be a time when the earth was very cold and a comet / asteroid splashes the ocean and the subsequent wave could freeze in mid-way at it's height?

[whoppix]

@LightCodeDemonH That would require the assumption that there are no impurities in the entire ocean whatsoever.

[Mikaboshie]

@LightCodeDemonH I couldn't tell you for sure, I would have to assume no due to the oxygen constantly mixing in with the water, where as in a sealed container it can no mix in at all unless moved.

IE: Sealed bottle of water at rest (no movement) isn't mixing at all, where as a bottle that is being shook will cause the oxygen to mix with it. Where as a body of water is always moving and mixing.

[Jinxs38]

It's all the chemicals they are putting into that crappy water.