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I don't know if this is real or fake but the water in this bottle turns to ice in a matter of seconds. What does everyone think? Is this real or fake?

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  • OMG!!! You are all wrong

    It's called (((Potasium Nitrate)))...you know the stuff that makes an instant cold pack cold. When mixed with water at a overly high rate and agitate it it will freeze water..."Sodium Polyacrylate" doesn't become a solid until all of the moister is removed...which takes time or heat and slightly less time and then it reduces mass by the amount of water removed. Ie; onw teaspoon will absorb approx. 32 oz. water and have the consistancy of extreamly firm Jello. Thats why it's called "Water Gel"...

    By shooter357 1150696475 Reply Spam [+15] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • re: OMG!!!

      Dude, go back to chemistry class. Instant cold packs are Ammonium Hydroxide. Sodium Polyacrylate is the "instant snow" powder (cool stuff) and is still a solid when it has water added to it. There's a good chance this is a supersaturated solution of sodium acetate. That stuff will remain a liquid until a seed crystal is added or it has some kind of mechanical disturbance ie. shaking it in a bottle. The speed at which this stuff turns solid doesn't happen it too many other things than that. If you want to look up a video of it happening, look up instant heat packs that are made with the SSat Soln of Sodium acetate. You start those by clicking a metal disc that provides the same effect as shaking that bottle.

      By FlamingTaint 1157983113 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • .....

      its funny to see idiots argue on the internet....word of advice buddy, get a fuckin life

      By mastermicroman2002 1158023793 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ...

      wer not all freakin college chemistry professors. im in 8th grade, and im pretty sure that not only me but almost every1 that read ur post had no idea wat "Sodium Polyacrylate" was and all the rest of ur crap posted on there.. OMG!!! YOU ARE RIGHT

      By ddandevil67 1159616333 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ni its real water

      ive had it happen lots with full unopened bottles of water. trippy shit tho

      By beerad 1157441688 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ...

      it can absorb 200 to 300 times its weight in tap water (even more if the water is distilled) and hold it in a gooey gel.

      By erocdrah 1157158001 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Psshh...

      It's just water that's been in the kids garage overnight (obviously somewhere cold eh?) Nothing added to it, just plain old water.
      Apparently none of the 200 people who've commented on this have ever seen this phenomenon (frozen water.. who knew?) It'll happen to beer as well, you just can't see it in action like you can with a clear water bottle.
      A liquid below its freezing point will crystallize in the presence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form. However, lacking any such nucleus, the liquid phase can be maintained all the way down to the temperature at which crystal homogeneous nucleation occurs. The homogeneous nucleation can occur above the glass transition where the system is an amorphous — that is, non - crystalline — solid.

      Water has a freezing point of 273 K (0°C or 32°F) but can be supercooled at ambient pressure down to its crystal homogeneous nucleation at almost 231 K (−42°C).1 If cooled at a rate of the order of 1 million K per second, the crystal nucleation can be avoided and water becomes a glass. Its glass transition temperature is much colder and harder to determine, but studies estimate it at about 165 K (−108°C).2 Glassy water can be heated up to approximately 150 K (−123°C).3 In the range of temperatures between 231 K (−42°C) and 150 K (−123°C) experiments find only crystal ice.

      By illuminati420 1157040743 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • How about a closed bottle

      I recently changed the temperature of one of fridges at work. After I did that when you pulled out a closed bottle of water it froze right before your eyes without shaking it vigerously. Is that normal or should I avoid drinking the water?

      By kejsport 1169067039 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • STOP WITH THE BIIIIG COMMENTS

      can u resume it?

      just write like this...

      :)

      By GigaGolf 1161475714 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • illuminati420 got it good

      it's true, water can be kept at below 0 degrees Celsius in a liquid state, but add only a snow-flake, and water will instantly freeze

      By sschaky 1158976952 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Ass

      just shut the fuck up you buthole looking cock sucking mother fucker

      By snipermike0524 1167322431 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • yeah

      the water freezing was pretty cool too, hey...like..like jesus or something

      By justinthesayain 1158041198 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ,,,,

      do you feel smart because u looked something up on the internet?

      By cyprej16 1157818253 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • You are the man hommie

      had no idea but i wanna try this now, thanks for the info

      By Evan420 1156138857 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • ..

      smart

      By that kid 1155866573 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • nice

      i never knew that

      By Sugerrush1234 1155442192 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • bollox

      its a gel . ive used similar in potting mix for plants

      By stu420 1155070024 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's Sodium Polyacrylate

    Also known as slush powder, this powder instantly turns a liquid into a solid. Sodium polyacrylate absorbs from 800 to 1000 times its weight in water and is actually the secret ingredient that's used to absorb "liquid" in baby diapers.

    The a-hole filtering people is probably trying to sell this secret snow crap on eBay.

    By Bushwood 1148016344 Reply Spam [+5] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • It's just pure water.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling

      This video was swiped from f0rked.com. The effect you're seeing is called supercooling.

      As the wikipedia article mentions:

      "A liquid below its melting point will crystallize in the presence of a seed crystal or nucleus around which a crystal structure can form. However, lacking any such nucleus, the liquid phase can be maintained all the way down to the temperature at which crystal homogeneous nucleation occurs."

      As this water having gone through some type of filter process (possibly reverse osmosis), it would have made it exceptionally pure and lacking these "seed nuclei"

      Take a look at the other videos at http://f0rked.com/articles/supercooling

      That type of behavious is not possible with the substance you're talking about.

      By hafetysazard 1153624126 Reply Spam [+5] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • So...

      Pretty much just distilled water, right?

      By Zanbatou-sama 1156982708 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • are you kidding me

      that was horrible

      By mike hawk 1154813652 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • just curious

      ... do you know what might happen if we ate that? I can only imagine...

      By xeroxpoop 1154670922 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • TY

      I love it when poeple willingly share thier knowledge. Bravo.

      By Abalanzar 1151685760 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Yep it is

      Ya ive did this trick many times. It aslo the secret in super absorbable tampons.

      By dr_clocker 1150238079 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • or..

      they did that in antarctica. or someplace where its -32 degrees F

      By Shady joe 1154741614 Reply Spam [-2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Lots of WRONG scientists

    who can't even believe when someone tells them the truth....
    There is no trick. this happens to my water bottles all the time. It blew my mind the first time it happened, but when i get in my car inthe morning and a bottle has sat and literally has frozen WITHOUT freezing to a solid. It remains liquid even at the seriously below freezing temp... Then as soon as I touch the bottle and create just a little bit of motion ' the water begins to freeze INSTANTLY' and you can watch it happen right before your eyes in a matter of 2-3 seconds, the water becomes solid :) It has only happened with unopened (new) bottles for me here and I assumed it had to do with the pressure inside the bottle from traveling to this altitude (9,600 ft) Everything has MORE presure IN it when it gets up here!

    By Dmanmay 1155162483 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Interesting, but not wrong

      Thats quite cool. Sounds like you're watching a supercooled solution nucleate and solidify. The pressure of the new bottle may play a role also, but I think it's the purity of the unopened bottles allowing for the supercooling to occur. As someone else mentioned it takes a foreign particle or agitation to nucleate a phase change. I've seen this happy with water in a crystal glass in the microwave - barely touching the heated glass was enough to cause most of the water to vaporize pretty violently.

      And I tend to think this is a clip of gel, for no reason in particular ;).

      By bme_md 1155184328 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Sorry (((Potasium Nitrate)))

    When I got to grab a nice bottle of water out of the fridge here in Iraq it tends to do that frequently. Concidering I've been stationed here for over a year i feel pretty safe that the unopened bottels of water don't contain concentraited amounts of Potasium Nitrate. But I'm just a grunt so what do I know.

    By romania86 1159062851 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • wow

    It's called fiji water. Freeze it for 5 hours than take it out. Shake it a little and it will instantly freeze. f-ing people so stupid

    By cat2333 1150118421 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • super-cooled water

    Water can be supercooled down to about -40 degrees. Some antarctic fish live in a supercooled condition. You catch them on a lline through an ice hole, pull them out flopping and then they freeze the instant you lay them down on the ice. Pretty cool!

    By wake01 1166564781 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's not ice it's slush powder, can buy ...

    .

    By Joker of Clubs 1164573722 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • its real

    stick a bottle of water in the freezer, and wait a few hours, its still liquid, but its still very very cold in your hand, now shake the bottle or open the cap and pour it out or something (fun). it freezes when its disturbed like that, also works with other drinks in bottles, i know first hand when i am at work, we have bottled water and gatorade we stick in the freezer, and the gatorade when disturbed, turns to slushy from a perfect liquid, you see slush slowly moving accross the bottle its cool, but the bottled water instantly freezes to a clear ice when disturbed, with liquid in the center of the bottle.

    By Vinlaell 1159765983 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • confusing words

    thats alot of big words.use simple words.gosh!

    By joebobjoe 1159730561 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DO THIS

    Go to google. Type in "Slush Powder magic" find a magic store with a good price. Buy the slush powder and when it arrives mix it with water. This is a VERY COMMON magic trick using a silica gel. THIS IS NOT TEMPERATURE DEPENDANT, the idiots posting here who try to explain this by temperature are only attempting to make you the sheeple look like fools. Go buy some slush powder and amse the kids (dont eat it though or you;ll dry up like an egyptian mummy.

    By xenophilist 1159271605 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • How its done..

    http://magicmax.com/product_info.php?products_id=567

    Pretty awesome stuff,a magician

    By MasterJunior 1158893281 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • it's simple

    The bottle is pressurized which lowers the freezing point of water. he then unscrews the cap to lower the pressure and o my god it freezes.

    By viperbitea 1158694945 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • how

    now how did he do that spookyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! becx

    By bec and yousif 1158513397 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Nothing new

    I had this happen as I'm drinking the water it solidifies in the back of my throat. It actually doesn't turn into an actual solid, more of a mush really, it's easy to try this just leave a sealed bottle of water in the freezer for a few hours, you have to get the timing just right thuogh, and when you take it out of the freezer it will start to solidify starting at the top then slowly towards the bottom, or sometime after you take the cap off. But it IS just ordinary water (actually my water is like triple or quadruple filtered using 2 or 3 different systems, so I'm not sure how impurities would affect the process, but they will probably hinder it). IT IS NOT POTASIUM NITATE, OR ANY OTHER CHEMICAL JUST WATER!

    By Rasputin921 1158142171 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • We do this all the time here.

    I am currently deployed to LSA Anaconda, Iraq. Because of the heat we keep most of our water bottles in freezer chests. (We drink so much of it that very few of the bottles get a chance to freeze solid.) It's become sort of a game to us to try to find the bottles that will turn to slush when we thump the bottom on something hard.

    By Godless US Soldier 1157528635 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • THIS IS NOTHING NEW.....

    its called slush powder. i have some of it in my hand right now. you can buy it at any magic/trick shop. you use it in the good ol' vanishing water trick. put a small amount of it in the bottom of a styrofoam cup and ask someone in the croud if you could borrow their drink. pore some in the cup and then splash them in the face with it (or attemp to) it becomes a thick slush, allmost like a grainy jello.

    By terboed 1157393318 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ya thats wrong

    there is also lightning powder. a form of potasium nitrate or somthing of a simalar composition that turns any liquid into a gell. it is used in certian magic tricks.

    By bobeedo 1157384538 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Wow, its not that hard

    Notice how he didnt show the top of the water bottle when he was mixing up the water. That was because he was grasping the sides of the water bottle against the ice chunk (which was above the water, out of our view).

    By gamerw00t 1157355472 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • gelling water.

    It doesnt freeze. It is reduced to a gel, look closley as the bottle is turned towards the camera you can see the air bubbles, private engineers have been working on a gel agent that will absorb a enormous amout of moisture from the surrounding area 1 teaspoon per gallonish of water instant gel.

    By Deak 1157255856 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • WTF ARE YOU ON???!!!

    Its fake as Pammys tits!!! Its just a normal deep freeze vacuum storage unit which u find in any supermarket store out the back and the video has been sped up?! Think u yanky twats! Christ

    By tha_nawz 1157215979 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • You are a moron,

      this video is not sped up, this is a substance called "slush powder" its a old magic trick. you can buy it at any magic store., I do not even comprehend how people can be as stupid as you are. The only thing you will ever do to benefit society is die, you worthless human garbage.

      By xenophilist 1159272529 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It is real, and its just plain water

    If you supercool water, just slightly below freezing but in a place without vibration of any kind, it will not harden until you tap it or agitate it. Then it will crystalize very quickly.

    By nothanks 1156976488 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • pressure

    Water's volume increases when it is being frozen. If you keep volume fixed it can not freeze at all. At this video the cap of the bottle is not seen while it is still liquid. I think he removes cap secretly after shaking. So shaking have no connection the freezing.

    By utkua 1156855000 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • omg your still all wrong

    if you look really close its still kinda jelly its called super absorbant pollimer(i know its spelled wrong) you can get that stuff at a gag store or if you rip open a diaper

    By djdt 1156393892 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • i thank it,s fake

    but don,t konw for sure

    By divxcity 1155825696 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • fake

    its a fake

    By boonamera 1155593939 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Sodium Acetate

    it might even be sodium acetate, but not sure if it could work that fast. there is stuff used in "hand warmers, once triggered but a "snap" or ajitation it changes state fomr liquid to solid releasing energy, bottle loks slightly head damaged anyway but its obvoiusly not "ice"

    By Ninja_Nick 1155568177 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • duhhh

    guess non of you ever heard of freez frame. Press pause on ur recorder, do what u gotta do, unpause. so uh yeh, it was water. he paused. froze the shit, then played it again

    By ExodusPrime 1155530264 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • BAD!!!

    its called termic shock!, when water changes its temperature drastically from a lower to a higher one it freezes

    By hatz 1155528344 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • TRY THIS

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/201748/whats_inside/

    By Ribeye 1155418283 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • the truth

    its not ice its some kind of gel DUMMYS!!

    By J-dubb711 1155260731 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • 1

    no comment

    By BLACK-ROSE!!! 1155248212 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • sucks

    that is hella fake if that was real they will post it all over the news

    By random game player 1155182345 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • its a powder!

    i had this when i was younger and played tricks on my friends... its a powder that when put into a liquid it turns into a gel not ice. you can find it in a gag store or a "magic"shop.

    By Iwona82 1155140743 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's defenitly a camera trick!

    When the water turns into ice there is a slight flicker.
    It's hard to see because they've done it pretty well, but I've done alot of these tricks, it's just abit of camera trick with a dash of computer magic. (check out team extream on my space.

    By Mad Chimpman 1155124647 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • temperature

    i think the question relied on this dude's surrounding temperature, he did say it was below -17°C

    By cyril 1154985898 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • wow

    cool

    By kitty meow 1154653934 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • TRY IT

    i left a case of bottle water in my garage, i went to grab one and it soon froze instantly, i tried to repaet the process with no luck, but thats definitly possible, douch bags

    By Canadian_not_a_ 1154591217 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • hmmmm

    Kinda looked alot like a gel to me... I believe the person who said its Sodium Polyacrylate...
    Look closely at the contents of the bottle after the "freeze"...

    By File0 1153958217 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It happend 2 me 2!

    Hi pll!
    It happened 2 me 2 when I was taking a bottle of water out of the freezer and shaked it and it became solid ice.... If think it's a question of temperature....

    Greetings from a beautifull Switzerland

    By grooves 1153582953 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • even ifit is fake it satill looks awesom...

      well if you just stop judging and start watching you can see that it is still cool nomatterwhat =P one word lol

      By ch0lay 1155005298 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • oh wot ever

    they jus switch the bottles-it was a camera trick

    By girl01 1153573634 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • stupid mortals

    leave the water in the frezzer for about an hour or two just cold enough to freeze then pull it out and shake it up and watch! me and my wife discovered it by accident one night

    By icumblood 1153293897 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • GUYS!!

    JUST TRY THIS LINK:
    http://f0rked.com/articles/supercooling

    By Jackissimus 1153244701 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ITS REAL!!!

    evrybody can do this with water. i did it too many times.
    how to do it?
    put a water somewhere in cold place, where is temperature 0 degrees of Celsius. you must handle with this water VERY CAREFULLY, then slowly, realy slowly put it somewhere in frost. VERY CAREFULLY!!!!!!!!!
    then after couple of hours, took this bottle - you can see, that wather didnt freeze. and then shake with bottle and water will change into ice in few seconds...
    one very important condition - the water must be DISTILLED!!!!!!!!

    By attran 1153178869 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Simple

    Buy a bottle of water, open it, squeeze out the excess air, reclose it, place it back in the freezer for a bit, when the water is right at freezing temp, open the bottle and you'll see the water crystalize from top down.
    I think it has to do with pressure lowering the freezing point or something like that. Can't remember

    By reebert 1153010272 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • ok

    that is sciense

    By IsabellaDonna 1152903382 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • No Chemicals

    I've actually done this a billion of times without chemicals. I don't know exactly the temperature but I sometimes leave water bottles in my workplace's fridge and the next morning it still looks like water but, if I take it out and hold it in my hand it'll freeze up.

    By Shigbaru 1152106426 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • real

    real, did it for a demonstration in chemistry class.