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How to Make Hot Ice - The Complete Guide

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Uploaded on Oct 17, 2009

The complete guide to making hot ice and sodium acetate. How to create it, fix it, and use it. All methods from baking soda and vinegar to laboratory synthesis are shown.

A full article on this video can be found at: http://sites.google.com/site/nurdrage...

The basis for hot ice is sodium acetate trihydrate, which is heated above its melting point and then cooled below its melting point so it's supercooled. It's still liquid and quickly solidifies when a seed crystal is introduced.

You cannot use copper pots because the vinegar seems to dissolve copper upon boiling, contaminating your product and damaging your pot.

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  • PAMuffinMan

    "Greetings, fellow nerds"

    Greetings, DeepThroat.

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    Hes obviously Batman.

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  • Infiltrator15z9

    I have a handwarmer that does this same thing

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  • Reece Platt

    omg done this 8 times wont work

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  • ctheuploader

    It has a similar crystalline structure.

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  • Morise22

    so if a seed crystal is needed to start the process how do the hand-warmers start just by popping a metal disk?

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  • Dylan Stewart

    The vinegar will ruin your copper pot

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  • Diephao Tran

    But what is The yellow colour water ?

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  • mantizz

    could you lower its tempe ven further accelarating the crystals formation? and could you make it form a diferent kind of crystal so it actually stronger or softer?

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  • MMinecrafTT

    isnt it bad to touch it with your finger?

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  • blackilluzionz

    currently looking for my copper pot :)

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  • WolffeGaming

    What happens if you use a copper pot?

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