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This is water cooled below 32 degrees F. When it is agitated, it instantly freezes.


Category: Geek, Science	5 Comments »

Pete Berg says:

Whoa! That’s like that scene from The Day After Tomorrow, where they’re running away from the cold. I always knew that wasn’t made up.
merks says:

BULLSHIT
Dr Jonas says:

There are a number of telltale signs that the water in the bottle is not freezing, but here are two:

i) Water cannot be compressed under normal atmospheric conditions, however the bottom of the plastic bottle did not expand or explode under the enormous pressure being exerted on the ‘ice’ above. Water is unique in that it expands not only when heated, but also when cooled. The video showed a distinct lack of this phenomenon;

ii) Assuming there was at least 4% humidity in the room at the time then the vessel should have attracted moisture on the outside, as the differential between no/low internal energy and high external energy caused dew to form. But we did not see this.

In my honest opinion this is not what it claims to be. Possible someone has lodged a fizzing agent (such as a crushed alka seltzer tablet) at the top of the bottle and releases it when they strike the vessel.
beastmn says:

That`s exactly what happens, I do it with gatorade all the time.
SFOtter says:

There’s a trick you can do with the chemicals in hand warmers that this look very much like…