Supercooling Experiment 2

[leggatt2006]

o my days i seen this when i was a kid and it sumthing to do with filtering the water the cleaner the water means the water can get even colder before freezing.say ur tap water froze in the freezer at -3 well if u filtered it the put back in the freezer it will go to -8 say before freezin,so u take the filtered water out the freezer pour a bit of dirty water into it and bang turns into ice str8 away..................i think

[davenichole]

i do this with bud lights. seriously.

[thehefolomp]

could i super cool my own pee

[texas5boi210]

that was very cheap ive seen better

[amazinasain]

hey i did that in my science class

[Evilshonen]

Add salt to it, watch what happens.

[Yoursocheeze]

How do U supercool/superheat water?

[TrebleAtBarca99]

why was the supercold water convinced so easily. It really needs to put up a better fight!

[thirsokewl]

eat the crystals plz

[inmyfacehaha]

how can i only be hearing about this now?

[supergirl579]

cool

[Jimlet161]

Wow, very nice. Well done.

[nadae2]

WOW

[dizzyluvsda4door]

that was rather clever

[2hitKO]

can you drink it?

[siriusblack9999]

yea, it's pure water

[knowyourunknowns]

It's cold water. Yes, you can drink it. No, it's not an advanced chemistry topic. It's called supercooling. You should have learned about it in school.

Very pure water can be cooled below its freezing point without ice formation, since crystals usually need a "seed" - a speck of dust or a small bubble to start arranging themselves on in a regular pattern. That ice crystal provided that. Once more crystals formed, they in turn acted as seeds, and so on.

[Alacard0malley]

water?

[Flashwarior]

If it's just ice instead then I believe so. But if they used any other chemicals I wouldn't

[Mexicandude24]

yes unless the snow is any other color than white

[notknown]

Yes, you can drink it, although I'm not sure what would happen, it might possibly freeze on the way down your body.

Hopefully, it'll warm up past freezing so nothing harmful happens.

[kyle772]

im not sure can you O-o

[teethendrikson]

lol ! probably not when its FROZEN :D

[myzeppelinisled]

yeah its just water lol

[brycepoole]

yes.

[JacapoSaladin]

yeah, it is water

[Mastershs]

dont try!

[bball4lyph]

ITS ICE

[soaper4]

yes

[shemindas]

pure water freezes at temperature less than 0degree...but if any impurities are present it become 0 degree...he added some impurities to the water which is less than 0 degree..then its freezing point become zero and its starts freezing...it is the propertyy of nucleation...hetrogenous nucleation

[Debbie321lopez]

ts vrozen

[darkvideo54]

yea, just like mentioned below it would turn into slush in your mouth. OOOOOOOOOO i just had an idea, an INSTANT SLURPY!!!!!! would that even work?

[krypet007]

if you want water at 0 degrees Celsius freezing in your mouth, then... YES you can drink it. :)

[skorlkid]

-.- i wouldnt waste my time with the bottle when theirs a shitload of snow in your backyard lol. but i can understand how much fun it is to watch water instantly freeze

[asianspark]

you suck

[wingwing999]

i think u can put sth inside the bottle

and let the ice to cool it.

[mastersword85]

how do u get the water that cold. i tried putting it in my freezer for a while and banging it against my hand but it never works. if i leave it in 2 long it will freze and not work what do i do?

[Triggerhappy94]

try turning up the tempature. ( sorry about the spelling) the cooing must be slow. also, put in 5-7 bottles, and hit one every hour. hope this helps.

[Shanghaifactor]

The water has to be purified, tap water won't usually work.

The thing I noticed that works rather well is gatorade.

[generalx5]

ites easy, first put it in the cooler, this cools the bottle to an average low. this way when you put it into the freezer, the water temp throughout the bottle will be very constant. And leave it in the freezer for an hour maybe more depending...and when removing it, dont agitate the water too much, when you are ready, you can give it a tap and spark the crystal alighment process.

[CJBoy2010]

I think you gotta leave it in the freezer (below 0 degrees, not sure if C or F), for about 3 hours.

[Shooterr0]

For super cooling to work the water has to be:

-10degrees

Undisturbed for 3 hours

Be free from impurities (use-bottled water)

The bottle has to have smooth sides

[ntlbrown]

the water has to be pure with no particles of any sort in it. your best bet is to buy a case of like aquafina of some purified stuff, and try freezing a bunch of them, one of them is boud to be pure. (i had two in one case)

[msjam1919]

haven't anyone put a bottle drinking water in the freezer and had this to happen when you got the bottle out to drink it? I grew up knowing this from a child and I live in sunny Florida where it don't snow at all. This is common knowledge for me.

[Alacard0malley]

no sir your wrong,

it is knowledge to you however to any curious soul that wondered across this video it is probably new, it is not widespread knowledge therefore it is not common knowledge

[mastersword85]

i wonder what would happen if u drank it and it got aggravated in ur stomach

[bob0rama]

It would turn to slush in your mouth as you drank it. It would be pretty boring.

[ifreerun]

how do u do that?

[lethalewis]

yh can you drink it?

[capuchingo]

can u drink it? O_o my people in the desert need it D<

[linuxnaveia]

Here's impossible I do this, in winter I get 15C!!

I live in Brazil's south!

[BOXIANG888]

hi have any chemical reaction?

[meg7704]

where do u get ice crystals from?

[bob0rama]

It was winter, so I picked up a fleck of snow.

[mastersword85]

wat kind of water is this?

[bob0rama]

Wal*Mart purified drinking water. Nothing exotic. :-)

[GaaraKunKunoichi13]

WOAH.

:o

[AR5T7]

this is a trick or really????

[bob0rama]

Its absolutely real. just water and a bowl, and of course the secret ingredient: too much time on your hands.

[XSleighterX]

I have a question. What do you do to super cool purified or distilled water?

[spizwizzfizz12345]

what were the steps? and how long did u freeze it for it not to freeze, if that makes sense

[nafango22]

dont forget setting up a camera to sit and watch the bottle for several hours while the water inside freezes.

[hiroki203]

but how did you make it hehe a silly questiom

[pr0dskat3r]

whats an ice crystal

[spblackey]

oh.. my.. god. diaf.

[karisawa]

XDDD its just a snow flake

[tvmastermandude]

i was able to do that in my fridge!!!!!!! I also did that on a trip to Minnesota.

[AliStrong]

How do you super cool water?

[untziggy]

AHHHHHH, Ice-9!!!!!

[LordZarathos]

HAHAHAHAHA love that book

[Rmiller2792]

exactly how do u do this...like step by step//how do u get it cold enough without freezing it tho

[ghz646]

u need PURE water.

[dinodragon34]

@ghz646 like not water from a sink

[theportmeister]

ive done this lots

if you want to spoil someones beer you can do the same thing with an ice-cold beer, just scrape some ice from the outside of the bottle and drop it in, doesnt always work but yeah have fun

[gsss124]

thanks a lot for the info!!! i will soon try this.

[KiraQC]

it is possible to drink the water after you put a seed crystal?

[bob0rama]

I used a fleck of snow, so it just water, so sure. And when trying to supercool water you end up with a lot of "duds" that either freeze solid or turn to slush prior to being able to play with them, I just let them warm up and put them in the fridge for general consumption. If you have a bottle which won't supercool, its normally a defect in the bottle, and you will find that on trying to re-supercool these bottles, they tend to freeze instead. Its just water, people!

[kunoichiblck]

i dont live in a very cold area, actually i live in the south. you said that you can supercool a liquid by putting it in the freezer. when you put it in the freezer, did you put the freezer on the lowest setting? also will this work with soda's or only water?

[bob0rama]

With soda, the moment you pop the top, the bubbles will cause the soda to shushify and normally results in a mess. This works with diet soda because the 30% sugar by weight in regular soda depresses the freezing point of regular soda to a point where its hard to supercool it. Also dissolved C02 ( carbonic acid ) depresses the freezing point as well, so even diet soda will freeze at a substantially lower temperature, and hence the supercooling effect is not as pronounced.

[Andrew909]

C02 is carbon dioxide but other than that your right

[bob0rama]

I was wrong, but you were vague. I was under the mistaken impression that large portions of the dissolved C02 would convert to carbinic acid. However only a small part of the dissolved C02 is converted to carbonic acid. 1:500 @ 25C. Near 0C, 300% more carbonic acid is present. In the supercooled state, even more carbonic acid is presen. But as you point out, carbinic acid is distinct from carbon dioxide.

[neoian91]

hey can u plz tell me how to supper cool

[vincent1992]

so, can you drink it then?

[jerryswinger]

i think u should fkn speak english bro

[soopa123]

i can never get this to happen, why?

i always put it in the fridge and then i tap it hard and nothing happens

[karisawa]

huh? my vocabulary is small and so is my chemical mind

[savannah987]

wha........

[darkvideo54]

......whaaaa? is it pausible to speek dumb?

[thenetssaviour]

can a regular ice cube work?

[bob0rama]

A tiny bit of ice from any source will do the job. When the water is this cold, about -14C or 7F, almost anything will trigger the freezing.

[rainbowvein]

how does it not freeze at that temperature then?

[bob0rama]

Thats what supercooling is all about. Without an initial crystal of ice to start with, water will not freeze. This water is just purified drinking water. Its has so few impurities that if you cool it slow enough ice will not form.

[RyMan91]

I see you had the water outside, which no doubt caused it to become that cold, but would there be any other way of freezing it to such a point? Also, was the water distilled or was it right out of the bottle?

[bob0rama]

I supercooled the water in a freezer inside, did the shot outside because you don't get frost on the bottle. If you tried this inside, humidity from the air would form frost on the bottle making it harder to see whats happening. It was a cold day, perhaps 20F, but not nearly as cold as the water. :-)

[rainbowvein]

Ok nice, must have a good freezer to cool it down that low lol

[bob0rama]

I cool it in stages, first down to -5C, then -12C, then finish it in a chest freezer which goes down to -28C, but normally the drinking water will spontaneously freeze at -17C. I got lucky with this particular bottle which went down to -21C.

[rainbowvein]

ah I see now, well thanks for the info :D I don't think I'll be getting a chest freezer anytime soon though :P

[thehunjo]

Freeze it

[jackxzx]

thats weird!

[falzhobel]

Super ;! You can also look at my own experience in a fridge ;)