Flash Frozen: Weird science from St. Joseph Island, Canada

SooToday.com reader Phil Sabine is puzzled by what happens when he leaves bottled water in his truck during freezing weather

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We suspect that what’s happening here is that the water in the bottles which did not freeze overnight was “supercooled.” Water normally freezes when it is cooled below 0 degrees Celsius, forming ice crystals. Ice crystals form more easily when they grow on existing ice crystals — the water molecules like to pack themselves in place on a crystal that’s already gotten started. It doesn’t take much to start the crystallization process going — a little piece of dust or other impurity in the water, or even a scratch on the bottle are sometimes all it takes to get ice crystals growing. The process of starting off a crystal is called “nucleation.”

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Steve Says…

Above Hoax Exposed ?

Uploaded by PhysioRoomVideo on 3 Oct 2011