http://youtube.com/watch?v=YLeL8XFBB_0
seen this vid and im wondering if this can be done at home. if so how? thanks
seen this vid and im wondering if this can be done at home. if so how? thanks
Last edited by pedigreeuk (2007-03-19 06:29:14)
Yeah, that one is dangerous. Take some pure water, put it in a mug and microwave it. Add a spoon to the mug any you'll get a face full of superheated water.pedigreeuk wrote:
Pure water (as pure as possible)
Clean bottle (very clean)
Cold temperatures, freezer may work but will more than likely disturb liquid getting it out, so outside will probably be better (assuming it's still cold enough)
Patience
Put pure water in clean bottle, leave somewhere cold, wait for liquid to match air-temperature gently pick up and shake.
Video results
Edit: also works the other way - superboiling (tends to make things explode though )
It is theoretically possible, but the vid looks more like when you add water to ouzo to me.ghettoperson wrote:
Looks odd I'll give you that. No idea whether it's possible or not, but it doesn't sound it. I know nothing of it though.
Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2007-03-19 18:08:29)
nope get the right water viscosity and temp and it's possibleUON wrote:
Looks fake.
No way. freezing is all about temperature. A cold glass will freeze before a warm glass..:XDR:.PureFodder wrote:
Yeah, that one is dangerous. Take some pure water, put it in a mug and microwave it. Add a spoon to the mug any you'll get a face full of superheated water.pedigreeuk wrote:
Pure water (as pure as possible)
Clean bottle (very clean)
Cold temperatures, freezer may work but will more than likely disturb liquid getting it out, so outside will probably be better (assuming it's still cold enough)
Patience
Put pure water in clean bottle, leave somewhere cold, wait for liquid to match air-temperature gently pick up and shake.
Video results
Edit: also works the other way - superboiling (tends to make things explode though )
Nasty.
On an odd side note. Did you know that if you place a cup of cold water and a cup of warm water in a freezer, the warm one will freeze first?
Last edited by Fen321 (2007-03-19 18:20:09)
It was just the second to last one that looked a bit like something had been added to the liquid to me... I can concede it is real, but it still looks a bit fake. Anyway, I enjoy being a skeptic about everything, stop raining on my paradepedigreeuk wrote:
nope get the right water viscosity and temp and it's possibleUON wrote:
Looks fake.
But then again warm water freeze before cold water !ATG wrote:
No way. freezing is all about temperature. A cold glass will freeze before a warm glass..:XDR:.PureFodder wrote:
Yeah, that one is dangerous. Take some pure water, put it in a mug and microwave it. Add a spoon to the mug any you'll get a face full of superheated water.pedigreeuk wrote:
Pure water (as pure as possible)
Clean bottle (very clean)
Cold temperatures, freezer may work but will more than likely disturb liquid getting it out, so outside will probably be better (assuming it's still cold enough)
Patience
Put pure water in clean bottle, leave somewhere cold, wait for liquid to match air-temperature gently pick up and shake.
Video results
Edit: also works the other way - superboiling (tends to make things explode though )
Nasty.
On an odd side note. Did you know that if you place a cup of cold water and a cup of warm water in a freezer, the warm one will freeze first?
I guess pure water would have to be distilled water.Scardaddy wrote:
Pure water like what, could I boil the water to get the required pureness or would I have to find a different way to purify the water? Also obviously a clean container is very necessary, I.E. cleaned with purified water and he's used a plastic one, so I'm guessing that, that would work. Lastly this is a question of allowing the water to then match the air temperature, so did he open the lid a little bit?
Maybe I'm dumb but wow that is a serious reaction taking place and the power required to create an instant reaction like that must be massize.
But you can remove the other ions that will normally be found in water and degass it too as tiny gas bubbles can nucleate the crystallisation.mcminty wrote:
I guess pure water would have to be distilled water.Scardaddy wrote:
Pure water like what, could I boil the water to get the required pureness or would I have to find a different way to purify the water? Also obviously a clean container is very necessary, I.E. cleaned with purified water and he's used a plastic one, so I'm guessing that, that would work. Lastly this is a question of allowing the water to then match the air temperature, so did he open the lid a little bit?
Maybe I'm dumb but wow that is a serious reaction taking place and the power required to create an instant reaction like that must be massize.
You can never have "pure water", some of it self-ionises.
H2O + H2O ---> H3O+ + OH-
Mcminty.