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Someone is gonna make a fortune selling deserts with this as a part of the tableside presentation.

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what i was gonna say before i got backspaced by lame design was:

i don't understand how this supercooled water trick works. how come when i put a bottle of water in my -10 C freezer it turns to ice instead of supercooled water? does the water have to be distilled perhaps? please inform me! cool vid!

Every time I see this trick, I'm reminded of Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-9

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[ontopic]how do you supercool water like that? I imagine the results of this experiment would be super cool (all possible pun allowable by law intended) in zero gravity.

Does anyone know how they managed to super-cool it in a first place?

Cryokinesis.

It's easy, just freeze any water with relatively low solute concentration. Nestle PureLife works well. Tap water will not work (well, at least not Vancouver tap water. Make sure there are no air bubbles clinging to the bottle inside the water.

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on topic: low solute ie. distilled water, answers my question. so if i put a bottle of nestle still life water in my freezer it doesn't freeze into a block as long as i don't agitate it?

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1) you have to have pure water or something with really low contaminants.
2) cool it to the above -21C
3) be very careful with it. If that person where to shake it or drop the bottle, the water would freeze inside the bottle.
4) pour it out.

Believe it or not, water wants to stay a liquid. Hence, if you take water that has no contaminants, you can heat it to very high temperatures without it boiling (which is why you never, ever microwave distilled water) or freeze it to very low temperatures without it freezing solid. But as soon as you add a contaminants, such as sugar or bubbles, the water is forced to go into a different state (gas or solid).

That sure makes mixed drinks fun to make.

chaucer -

according to wikipedia:

In fact, superheating of plain tap water, for instance in the microwave, is just as great a danger as when heating distilled water. In the popular Discovery Channel show Mythbusters, an experiment was conducted where distilled water was placed in a microwave oven for several minutes long enough to boil, but no convection (boiling bubbles) took place.[citation needed] When a contaminant (a sugar cube) was added to the superheated water, it had an explosive effect. However, this effect also occurs with normal tap water, as microscopic impurities (especially those which carry air bubbles) are needed for boiling to start.The dissolved impurities in tap water are not enough to inhibit the superheating.

No luck with Dasani but I believe that's because of the salt content, I'll try again with some distilled water.

You can reproduce something like this if you put a vodka cooler in the freezer until very cold( I tried with Rev, a kind of energy drink with 7% vodka), it stays liquid due to the alcohol, but if you pour it over an ice cube it instantly turns to slush.
I believe that the crystalline formation in the ice cube forces the water to line-up and form ice crystals.
Anyway, it's a neat party trick.

I've always found that a high pressure is needed to keep the water from freezing. I used to do this with soda. You can stick it in the freezer for about an hour and when you open it the soda will begin to freeze from the top down.

So if I carefully freeze myself to -21C will my wiz come out like this?