How do you instantly freeze water?

Answer 1

Aside from cooling water down as fast as possible, perhaps you are thinking of supercooling of water? If you cool really clean water in a really smooth and clean container with a minimum of vibration or disturbance, the water will cool down below freezing temperature without changing phase. All you need to do is shake it, or scratch the container side, or add the tiniest seed crystal of ice and it will freeze *almost* instantly.

The easiest way of doing this using household materials is to find a glass bottle of mineral water and put it in your freezer for a couple hours. You'll have to experiment with the time, because it will eventually freeze, which might happen rather suddenly. Commercial glass bottles are typically freshly blown, which means the inside surface is clean on a molecular level. If you don't like the mineral water available, you might try adding distilled water to a new glass bottle that has been rinsed out very carefully with no scraping or solids added. Once you supercool the water, if you carefully warm the opening on the top (it will be colder than the water and will often cause it to freeze when you pour it out), you may be able to carefully pour the water into a glass and have it instantly freeze as it pours out.

SOURCE: http://answers.Yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090410112925AAN6TFv

-Answerer: Jeff

Answer 2

To turn water into ice

simply fill a cup with water

use a lighter and light the end of the straw

put it into the cup for 5 seconds

if you had the correct timing the entire thing will turn into ice

Answer 3

There's a few ways. One would be liquid nitrogen. The other would be super cooling. You need water with no impurities, and it needs to be cooled to below freezing without forming ice. Then, if you bang the container on a table, it'll freeze instantly. There are tons of videos on YouTube telling you how to do this.

Answer 4

A cold enough temperature (0 degrees celsius), created by a lack of heat.

Water freezes and becomes a solid at 32 degrees F.

Answer 5

I don't know about seconds...it has to be really really really cold.

Answer 6

Using Sodium Hexaflouride...

Answer 7

With liquid nitrogen :)

Answer 8

no