what would your friends say on a hot
summer’s day if you could open up a
bottle of water and pour out an instant
snow cone in this project we’re
exploring some tips some tricks and
everything else you’ll need to know to
master the art of making instant ice
[Music]
in a previous video we turn water like
this directly to ice in just an instant
for this project you’ll just need some
purified water and the easiest place to
find that is in a water bottle go ahead
and throw about six bottles in the
freezer because the more bottles you
start with the better chances you’re
going to have for success the
temperature dial in my freezer was set
to five of seven and that settled to a
temperature of minus twenty four degrees
Celsius or around minus eleven degrees
Fahrenheit
now these bottles have been sitting at
room temperature overnight and in my
experience this trick works best if
they’re evenly spaced and placed on
their sides the minute the door closes
make a note of the time after an hour
and a half
check your bottles to see if any of them
are frozen if they’re all still liquid
then quickly close the door but keep
checking on them every 15 minutes for
these particular bottles it took two
hours and 45 minutes for the first one
to freeze looking at the bottle you can
see it’s not frozen solid but you should
see flakes of ice floating around under
the plastic at this point stop and take
note of the time then subtract 15
minutes and now you have a super cooling
formula for your favorite brand of water
in my case this trick works from two and
a half hours to two hours and 45 minutes
now if the bottles in the freezer
haven’t frozen yet take them out very
gently this water is well below freezing
but hasn’t frozen yet because there
aren’t any impurities to get it started
the water does want to freeze and that’s
why something as simple as a jolt to the
side can be enough to nucleate the ice
formation and just like magic you’ve got
instant ice you’ll notice that bottles
this cold will develop a layer of
condensation making it harder to see
inside so go ahead and wipe that off
this way when you hit it you’ll have a
much better view of the crystal
formations another way to start your
water freezing is to use a piece of ice
put the ice anywhere you want and then
pour your water overtop you should see
it freeze instantly and build quickly
into instant ice sculptures like these I
put an ice cube on this rock and you can
see the crystals build every time the
water makes contact with the ice you
could make this easier by using a whole
bowl of ice
now if you start pouring your water and
it doesn’t look like it’s building
pillars very quickly it means your water
hasn’t cooled enough and probably needs
another 5 to 10 minutes in the freezer
this bottle did come out ten minutes
later and you can see a dramatic
difference in how quickly it freezes
if you leave your bottles in the freezer
too long they may be so sensitive that
even wiping the side of the bottle
initiates the freeze and it could be
complete before you even get the cap off
if you do get the cap off pouring too
slowly might result in this effect where
the water doesn’t pour out at all and
that’s because it’s iced up in the
bottleneck and it’s freezing the rest of
the way down if you’re wondering how
cold the water actually is I was able to
measure one bottle at – four and a half
degrees Celsius and there’s a good
chance they’re actually colder than that
if you try pouring this supercooled
liquid into a glass you might notice it
looks a little thick and syrupy if you
get to this point try touching the
surface gently with an ice cube
everything freezes firm enough to hold
the ice cube in place and makes a nice
little platform to continue building
your ice towers when trying this
approach it’s important that the glass
is extremely clean because even a
microscopic impurity can trigger the
nucleation and solidify your experiment
prematurely you could try using this
effect to pour yourself an instant snow
cone as the water freezes it actually
releases latent heat in the reaction and
warms the ice into a delicious slush I
tried using the juice in these freeze
pops as a makeshift snow cone syrup and
poured it on top to get three different
flavors well now you know everything you
need to know about making instant ice if
you want to see colored crystals try
pouring two drops of food coloring in
the water before you freeze it well
that’s it for now if you liked this
project perhaps you’ll like some of my
others check them out at the king of
random calm
summer’s day if you could open up a
bottle of water and pour out an instant
snow cone in this project we’re
exploring some tips some tricks and
everything else you’ll need to know to
master the art of making instant ice
[Music]
in a previous video we turn water like
this directly to ice in just an instant
for this project you’ll just need some
purified water and the easiest place to
find that is in a water bottle go ahead
and throw about six bottles in the
freezer because the more bottles you
start with the better chances you’re
going to have for success the
temperature dial in my freezer was set
to five of seven and that settled to a
temperature of minus twenty four degrees
Celsius or around minus eleven degrees
Fahrenheit
now these bottles have been sitting at
room temperature overnight and in my
experience this trick works best if
they’re evenly spaced and placed on
their sides the minute the door closes
make a note of the time after an hour
and a half
check your bottles to see if any of them
are frozen if they’re all still liquid
then quickly close the door but keep
checking on them every 15 minutes for
these particular bottles it took two
hours and 45 minutes for the first one
to freeze looking at the bottle you can
see it’s not frozen solid but you should
see flakes of ice floating around under
the plastic at this point stop and take
note of the time then subtract 15
minutes and now you have a super cooling
formula for your favorite brand of water
in my case this trick works from two and
a half hours to two hours and 45 minutes
now if the bottles in the freezer
haven’t frozen yet take them out very
gently this water is well below freezing
but hasn’t frozen yet because there
aren’t any impurities to get it started
the water does want to freeze and that’s
why something as simple as a jolt to the
side can be enough to nucleate the ice
formation and just like magic you’ve got
instant ice you’ll notice that bottles
this cold will develop a layer of
condensation making it harder to see
inside so go ahead and wipe that off
this way when you hit it you’ll have a
much better view of the crystal
formations another way to start your
water freezing is to use a piece of ice
put the ice anywhere you want and then
pour your water overtop you should see
it freeze instantly and build quickly
into instant ice sculptures like these I
put an ice cube on this rock and you can
see the crystals build every time the
water makes contact with the ice you
could make this easier by using a whole
bowl of ice
now if you start pouring your water and
it doesn’t look like it’s building
pillars very quickly it means your water
hasn’t cooled enough and probably needs
another 5 to 10 minutes in the freezer
this bottle did come out ten minutes
later and you can see a dramatic
difference in how quickly it freezes
if you leave your bottles in the freezer
too long they may be so sensitive that
even wiping the side of the bottle
initiates the freeze and it could be
complete before you even get the cap off
if you do get the cap off pouring too
slowly might result in this effect where
the water doesn’t pour out at all and
that’s because it’s iced up in the
bottleneck and it’s freezing the rest of
the way down if you’re wondering how
cold the water actually is I was able to
measure one bottle at – four and a half
degrees Celsius and there’s a good
chance they’re actually colder than that
if you try pouring this supercooled
liquid into a glass you might notice it
looks a little thick and syrupy if you
get to this point try touching the
surface gently with an ice cube
everything freezes firm enough to hold
the ice cube in place and makes a nice
little platform to continue building
your ice towers when trying this
approach it’s important that the glass
is extremely clean because even a
microscopic impurity can trigger the
nucleation and solidify your experiment
prematurely you could try using this
effect to pour yourself an instant snow
cone as the water freezes it actually
releases latent heat in the reaction and
warms the ice into a delicious slush I
tried using the juice in these freeze
pops as a makeshift snow cone syrup and
poured it on top to get three different
flavors well now you know everything you
need to know about making instant ice if
you want to see colored crystals try
pouring two drops of food coloring in
the water before you freeze it well
that’s it for now if you liked this
project perhaps you’ll like some of my
others check them out at the king of
random calm
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