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04-24-2007, 07:41 AM
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Just add Purple flavouring and you've got yourself a franchise!
Can anyone explaine what's going on in the video?
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04-24-2007, 10:26 AM
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04-24-2007, 10:41 AM
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It's supercooled water. Basic principle is a liquid is reduced in temperature below its freezing point in absence of a seed crystal. As soon as it encouters a seed crystal, it freezes.
You can do it with a bottle of beer fairly easily. Seems to work best with corona for some reason, smooth bottle I would guess. Leave it in a freezer for about 3-4 hours. Then take it out and tap it. Some bubbles will form and act as seeds. Within a few seconds, the beer will be a solid block. There are dozens of videos of it on youtube. And yes this is serious alchol abuse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkHS...elated&search=
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04-25-2007, 07:53 AM
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04-25-2007, 07:58 AM
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Science is an astounding anomaly sometimes.
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04-25-2007, 11:19 AM
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the stuff they use as an absorbent inside diapers looks and works fairly similar to that. You can pour a giant amount of water on a very small amount of dust and get a jell substance that looks somewhat like that. Not that I am saying it isn't supercooled water, but if you wanted to make it in a different manor.
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04-25-2007, 11:30 AM
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I've seen this in person, by accident. It was quite possibly the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
A few years ago, there was a drink that was popular for just a little while - it was kind of like the 'bubble tea' you can get some places now. It was bottled, clear, with colored 'bubbles' suspended in it. The bubbles (like pearl tapioca or something) were neutrally bouyant, so they just floated in it. Anyway, I had a couple of bottles of it in the back of my car one freezing morning, and when I was moving things around, they tapped together, and...froze. Pretty much exactly like the corona did. Pretty damn cool (ha!). |
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04-27-2007, 10:52 AM
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 I still have a couple of bottles on my shelf. They haven't moved for 9 years, and the bubbles are still suspended.
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04-27-2007, 01:45 PM
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To me, it didn't look like ice but rather water that was polymerizing on contact with air.
I understand the supercooled liquid theory, and that could be it, but the substance in the cup looks not a lot like slush to me.
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