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Is slurpee supercooled

Updated: 9/16/2023
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Supercooling is the cooling of a liquid below a transition temperature without the transition occurring, especially cooling below the freezing point without solidification

Since Slurpees are a mixture of fine ice, water, and syrup, they do not meet the definition of being supercooled. Slurpees achieve their drinkable form due to the mechanical mixing inside of the machine, as well as the reduction in it's freezing point from the sugar (a phenomenon also known as "freezing point depression".

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