WXforum.net

General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Earth Sciences => Topic started by: SlowModem on January 24, 2011, 12:36:29 PM

Title: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: SlowModem on January 24, 2011, 12:36:29 PM
Boiling water being frozen, ay:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-543953?hpt=Sbin

(Ever tried this Andrew?)
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: mackbig on January 24, 2011, 12:42:32 PM
How do you think we create those Alberta clippers......  They come from snow plants, we use our excess natural gas to boil lots of water, then catapult it up in the air..... True story.

Andrew
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: tbern on January 24, 2011, 12:49:12 PM
 :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: Downlinerz2 on January 24, 2011, 01:31:37 PM
   That is really neat!!!  I will have to try it out and see if I can ever get that result.  If it ever gets cold enough.
  When I saw the subject of this thread I thought it was going to be about this experiment I saw once about 10 years ago on PBS by a physics teacher who froze water by boiling it.  This is the same experiment but not the same teacher.
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCjj8iDB9I

     Mark
   
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: chief-david on January 24, 2011, 01:52:45 PM
The weatherman from KARE 11 in Minneapolis does that.
He also hammers a nail with a frozen banana

http://www.kare11.com/weather/weather_article.aspx?storyid=902448&catid=80 (http://www.kare11.com/weather/weather_article.aspx?storyid=902448&catid=80)
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: mackbig on January 24, 2011, 04:04:10 PM
I will try tonight, but its a balmy -10 right now going to a "low" of -8, after a wake up -23 this morning.

Andrew
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: Scalphunter on January 24, 2011, 04:29:30 PM
 Not so sure what the big deal is about this . Cold air, hot water it is going to freeze. You can see it better when tossing hot coffee inti 40 below air and find the ice shards easier in the sow. They just about are all round in shape.

John
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: Farmtalk on January 24, 2011, 04:32:54 PM
Have you guys not seen cartoons, where it is cold out, and they throw their coffee out the window really hard, and it freezes to the coffee mug??? Im only 16 and even Ive seen that!


Really cool demonstration though :grin:
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: SlowModem on January 24, 2011, 04:50:25 PM
Not so sure what the big deal is about this . Cold air, hot water it is going to freeze. You can see it better when tossing hot coffee inti 40 below air and find the ice shards easier in the sow. They just about are all round in shape.

John

or as FZ once said, "Watch out where the huskies go........."
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: DanS on January 24, 2011, 04:58:12 PM

or as FZ once said, "Watch out where the huskies go........."

Now I have that song stuck in my head and will probably go throughout today humming St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast. Could be worse though, great song!
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: mackbig on January 24, 2011, 05:00:57 PM
Ok, I just did it, and can say it works almost as well in -10 as it appears to have in -24.

Andrew

ps: love the cnn commments.. its fake, its powder, its a cup full of snow.... Ireport, "the sky is blue", no it isnt....
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: Downlinerz2 on January 24, 2011, 05:33:05 PM
Have you guys not seen cartoons, where it is cold out, and they throw their coffee out the window really hard, and it freezes to the coffee mug??? Im only 16 and even Ive seen that!
Really cool demonstration though :grin:
    I've seen Elmer Fudd get shot with a shotgun a hundred times too...I wouldn't want to try it myself :roll:
Title: Re: Freezing Boiling Water?
Post by: SlowModem on January 24, 2011, 06:51:55 PM

or as FZ once said, "Watch out where the huskies go........."

Now I have that song stuck in my head and will probably go throughout today humming St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast. Could be worse though, great song!

 =D> :grin: =D> :grin: \:D/ =D> :grin: \:D/ \:D/