It's the bubbles not the shock
Added 2025-01-15 20:46:22 +0000 UTCIt's a misconception that it's the shock that causes the super cooled water to crystalize. The shock itself does not do it but rather it's the tiny bubbles that the shock produces at the air water interface that act as nucleation sites.
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That slow blink at the end is your cat telling you he loves you. How nice.
Ken Barlow
2025-01-17 15:50:58 +0000 UTCEver cut a piece of fabric by cutting a nick in the edge and then ripping it? The bubble is the nick that disrupts the internal tension that allows the phase change to initiate.
CodyDon Reeder
2025-01-16 16:44:19 +0000 UTCIf your cat is usually that attentive it could be a great format for a series of educational shorts.
Jamison W.
2025-01-16 16:40:11 +0000 UTCMy guess is the air bubble allows the water to accelerate more in the bottle until it hits the wall creating an instanious rise in pressure, which pushed the water over the line of the phase diagram. This creates a nucliation site that seeds the rest of the water into freeing
Andrew Puterbaugh
2025-01-15 22:55:03 +0000 UTCWhat is the chemistry/physics of why the air causes that behavior? I'm guessing it isn't a chemical reaction with the air but more of a physical boundary reason? I guess it might be interesting to see if the same behavior exhibits with a noble gas.
Brad Hallisey
2025-01-15 20:55:56 +0000 UTC
