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Article #1053Re: very cold beer
From: Paul Singleton
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:48
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:48
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From article <1992Dec22.053523.19270@dcc.uchile.cl>, by jpasini@cipres.cec.uchile.cl (Pasini Krug Jose Miguel):
> In article [...] mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian) writes:
>>If you stick a bottle of beer in the freezer and forget about it for
>>a while, but not too long, it will be extremely cold (10 deg F?) but not
>>frozen when you take it out.
>>
>>If you've timed it right, you can pop the top off the bottle and watch
>>as the beer flash-freezes solid in a matter of a seconds. The first time
Isn't this super-cooling? I remember melting sodium thiosulphate crystals,
then letting it cool (remaining liquid) and "seeding" it with a small
crystal. Maybe other seeds would work. This was hobby chemistry for
12-year-olds. We weren't allowed beer.
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