Supercooled Water - Explained!

Many videos on YouTube show water freezing almost instantaneously. This video shows you how to replicate the experiment and it explains how the phenomenon works. Molecular illustrations are courtesy of:
PhET Interactive Simulations
University of Colorado
http://phet.colorado.edu.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• supercooled water
• instant freezing
• experiments
• change of state
• ice formation
• water freezing
• nucleation
• water experiment

[henry2687]

What happens if I poured this water on some hard surface like a floor, would it freeze in abstract formations? That would be cool!!!

[TheCal351]

One does not simply freeze water into ice...

[littleitalianice]

@henry2687 It freezes in the bottle as you pour it

[Tanmark1998]

oranges are orange.

[PykohYT]

When my dad worked at a hospital he did this with donated blood and IV stuff.

(It was supposed to be that cold and frozen, of course.)

[nathanlolo99]

2:21 bang it on the counter

[havban]

it happened to me so often when I took some not-yet-frozen bagged ice tea from the freezer. For some cases, they got frozen instantly, so exciting.

[Spiderboydk]

@zambonisdriver It's probably not completely pure like steril lab quality destilled water, but more pure than tap water, which is full of minerals and stuff.

[zambonisdriver]

for my better knowledge of the subject (an an exam that is in a few days) does not 'pure' water actually make it more difficult to turn into ice since there is less of a chance of a substance to nucleate onto? i was thought in my physical meteorology class that pure homogeneous nucleation is only possible at temperature that could reach into -41 celsius (which i hope for your electricity bill your fridge does not do).

[spyduderaj]

@tikitaka10 lol, how is he selling it?

[bigglessy]

@henry2687 Sadly, I believe the act of opening and tipping the bottle would cause it to freeze before being able to leave the bottle.