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Originally Posted by whitebandit
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im not exactly sure why/how but i have done this before.. Pulled a waterbottle out of the freezer and it was still liquid and set it down and it literally started to freeze in front of me..
(I live in arizona.. its like 70degrees)
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Has something to do with the way ice is formed; I'm probably the wrong person to have explain this so I won't get too technical. But basically for ice to form there has to be a "nucleus" present, normally in nature it would be some sort of impurity that the ice can stick to. Since there aren't really any impurities in the bottle of water and the bottle is left mostly undisturbed as it drops below its freezing point its harder for ice to actually form. When the bottle is taken out of the freezer the water is disturbed enough for the water to freeze/crystalize, or something like that. I believe they call liquid water that has dropped below it's freezing point "super cooled" but again this is just off what I remember from a science class I took like 3 years ago lol, it is pretty awesome to see though.
ps I'm in new York and fuck this cold its painful to go outside.