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What causes water to freeze instantly?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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12y ago

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You freeze water simply by cooling it to below 0 degrees Celsius. No special substance is required. If you are referring to the so-called "hot ice" the substance you use is sodium acetate. What you see happening in this case is not the water freezing, but rather the sodium acetate crystallizing from a supersaturated solution.

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17y ago

I read that ammonium nitrate when mixed with water can turn itself cold. It's used with cold packs. Perhaps by altering the concentration it can freeze?

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16y ago

Liquid nitrogen is one

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12y ago

A super duper freezer

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10y ago

Liquid Nitrogen

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