Why doesn't alcohol freeze?

Answer 1

Alchohol doesnt freeze in your freezer because the freezing point of alcohol is much lower than that for water.

Each substance has different specific freezing and boiling temperature. Since most foods contain water, that is what freezes. Things that have alcohol boil/catch fire faster and they freeze at a very low temperature.

The freezing point of ethyl alcohol is -117.3 C, or -17,914 F. Therefore you can freeze alcohol but most people think it doesnt because the average freezer doesnt even get close to -17,914 F.

Technically, alcohol can indeed freeze. It just does not freeze as quickly as water. The reason is because the freezing point for alcohols is quite a bit lower than the freezing point for water.

Answer 2

Alcohol doesn't have the chemical bond that water has so therefore less surface tension so it evaporates (dries) much more quickly. When it evaporates it cools your skin so it feel cold to the touch.

Answer 3

when splashed on your skin alcohol feels cold because that's the molecules of alcohol taking energy form you(in this case thermal energy) to evaporate

Answer 4

Yes, but your core temp. is getting lower. Bad idea to drink in a snow storm as your only hope.

Answer 5

As alcohol is a conductor of heat, it is able to gain heat easily from our skin = our hand loses heat thus becoming cold

Answer 6

Because that aluminum can of beer that you just took out of the fridge was chilled by being in the cold refrigerator. It feels cold because it is cold.

Answer 7

Because it evaporates faster than water, and leaves a sensation of cold while doing so.

Answer 8

It does, but at a lower temperature than water. That's why you put it in the

radiator of the car in the Winter.