Freezing water expands. What if you don't let it?

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    REFERENCES
    Page with TONS of info about water and ice
    water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_...
    Specifically, a graph showing density & temperature & pressure along the phase line!!!!!
    water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/images...
    Water freezing in isochoric conditions (theory):
    www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
    Water pressure/density calculator
    www.omnicalculator.com/physic...
    www.csgnetwork.com/water_densi...
    Article about pressure vs temperature vs volume expansion: Using freezing as a source of energy
    link.springer.com/article/10.....
    Latent heat of water at 0C
    link.springer.com/referencewo....
    Mariana Trench
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana....
    Regelation on wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regelat....
    Using Ice VI to freeze meat without tissue damage
    www.sciencedirect.com/science...
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  • @smartereveryday
    @smartereveryday Рік тому +2153

    Well, now I just want a video about ice 3

    • @spidunno
      @spidunno 4 місяці тому +79

      was entirely unaware that there were different types of ice and now I am in need of a video about it

    • @Peterotica
      @Peterotica 4 місяці тому +71

      look up Ice Age 3

    • @tristanridley1601
      @tristanridley1601 4 місяці тому +41

      This is basically the video on ice 3. This is the method used to get it, and the one important property, and how we found out it exists.
      Now, another video about ice 2 through 20? :D

    • @AndyTheBoiz
      @AndyTheBoiz 4 місяці тому +14

      There is a video called "Something weird happens when you keep squeezing" by Vox that also talks about these ice phases.

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids 3 місяці тому +5

      There are *many* different forms of ice. The most interesting is ice-nine.

  • @maxdudek4911
    @maxdudek4911 Рік тому +18293

    Wow I didn't know they came out with Ice III already, I must have missed Ice II

    • @vincentpelletier57
      @vincentpelletier57 Рік тому +624

      Maybe it is like Highlander movies, II was so bad we all consider it never happened 🤔
      /jk

    • @paulheitkemper1559
      @paulheitkemper1559 Рік тому +889

      "Ice II: Crystal Boogaloo"

    • @gauravvishwa2039
      @gauravvishwa2039 Рік тому +366

      Ice II froze to death.

    • @masterchiefer25
      @masterchiefer25 Рік тому +530

      It's ice nine you need to watch out for

    • @Michael-xd8bc
      @Michael-xd8bc Рік тому +247

      There's like 9 different types of ice if i remember correctly

  • @darkAwesome100
    @darkAwesome100 4 місяці тому +317

    "Oh don't worry, nothing weird happens, it just turns into an entirely new form of ice"

  • @T33K3SS3LCH3N
    @T33K3SS3LCH3N Рік тому +1177

    If anyone else is wondering about Ice I and II:
    I: Normal ice as we know it, i.e. forming around 0°C and 1 bar.
    II: Formed from further cooling down ice I at a high pressure, for example at -75°C and 300 bar
    III: As discussed here: Freezing water under high pressure. Can be further turned into either Ice I or Ice II as well.
    And then there are like 15 more ice types that form at different pressure/temperature combinations.

    • @teppopierune5520
      @teppopierune5520 Рік тому +14

      Underrräted comment

    • @fmobus
      @fmobus 4 місяці тому +43

      IX is the best, but requires careful handling

    • @jongeduard
      @jongeduard 4 місяці тому +47

      Several of these ice types actually exist inside the Earth's mantle and probably other inside other planets as well.
      Above a certain pressure, when talking about gigapascals (GPa), eventually most things become solid, no matter how hot they are, and this includes water as well.

    • @tristanridley1601
      @tristanridley1601 4 місяці тому +12

      I love the theorized metallic water/ice. But since it needs terapascals...

    • @andrewhunt9808
      @andrewhunt9808 4 місяці тому +8

      Ice VII (7): Let's apply a ton of pressure to normally liquid water

  • @Ryukachoo
    @Ryukachoo Рік тому +4400

    Not mentioned; when doing this in real life, those pressure numbers get terrifying really fast. The ice desperately wants to form and will rip steel pipes apart, freezing instantly as it finally has room to expand.....hence pipes busting in winter

    • @dovos8572
      @dovos8572 Рік тому +381

      600 atm are 607 bar and that is the number for -4°C. a car tire has around 2 bar.

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 Рік тому +126

      Electrostatic forces are damn strong...

    • @richardgratton7557
      @richardgratton7557 Рік тому +49

      Does a container that can withstand those pressures really exist?😮

    • @kazedcat
      @kazedcat Рік тому +179

      @@richardgratton7557 Yes you just need a really thick container.

    • @dovos8572
      @dovos8572 Рік тому +228

      @@richardgratton7557 yes it does exist but only with a very small volume where the pressure exists. it is basically a round steel ball with 10+cm wall thickness and a highly specialized valve. also another trick to do it is putting the high pressure tank inside a not as high pressurised tank so that the pressure difference between inside and outside isn't as extreme.

  • @bjbboy71697
    @bjbboy71697 Рік тому +4209

    Wait, how have I never heard of Ice III before? I feel like we need a video just on that.

    • @AntonFetzer
      @AntonFetzer Рік тому +644

      It's just a slightly different crystal structure that is only stable under very high pressures. So you can't really do anything with it.

    • @Cythil
      @Cythil Рік тому +197

      It is not so odd considering people generally just come in to contact with you regular ice, water and vapour/gas. The other forms you generally see in just extreme conditions.

    • @mathiasplans
      @mathiasplans Рік тому +213

      From Wikipedia, there are 19 ices in total en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases

    • @5poolcatrush
      @5poolcatrush Рік тому +39

      @@Cythil but extreme conditions are extreme just for our common perception, lets say on some other planet or in some point underground they can be pretty "normal", so we must not judge on that just beause we don't see it regularly around us

    • @MrTomyCJ
      @MrTomyCJ Рік тому +155

      @@5poolcatrush extreme = something outside what we consider normal. That's not judging, it's just convenient use of language.

  • @Owen_loves_Butters
    @Owen_loves_Butters 7 місяців тому +65

    That's why the term "incompressible" is a bit misleading. Water can be compressed, it's just that even a tiny bit of compression results in absurd amounts of pressure, since water molecules (or any liquid particles) push back against each other VERY strongly when they get close. Electromagnetism is a crazy strong force.

    • @majinnemesis
      @majinnemesis 2 місяці тому +6

      the term itself is a bit misleading since pretty much everything in the universe is compressible if you apply enough force

  • @usptact
    @usptact 2 місяці тому +8

    You: ha, I will hack universe!
    Universe: no you don’t.

  • @Klick404
    @Klick404 Рік тому +7032

    Ice melting under pressure is oddly relatable

  • @besmart
    @besmart Рік тому +1437

    Just watch out for ice nine. That stuff will really ruin your day, and everyone else’s.

    • @chaotickreg7024
      @chaotickreg7024 Рік тому +57

      I loved Cat's Cradle and I was hoping someone else would mention it. It's fun to watch people react while I explain all the various subplots and the fictional physics of Ice 9.

    • @patrickkilduff5272
      @patrickkilduff5272 Рік тому +88

      yeah...but ice nine HATES ice 7...since 7 ice 9

    • @oximas
      @oximas Рік тому +2

      @@patrickkilduff5272 lmao😂

    • @autumnshinespark
      @autumnshinespark Рік тому +11

      @@chaotickreg7024 So *that's* what 8 Bit Theater was referencing... Red Mage cast Ice IX on a Bag of Holding.

    • @marisakirisame1st
      @marisakirisame1st Рік тому +10

      ⑨ The strongest!

  • @QANashvilleRealEstate
    @QANashvilleRealEstate Рік тому +42

    Learned in undergrad chemical engineering ice actually has 18 crystal structures (aka building blocks and they’ve actually found an ice-19) in which it can form depending on the surrounding conditions. Truly fascinating!
    Another fun fact the way iron forms it starts out bcc or body center cubic and at higher temps it switches to a fcc or face centered cubic structure and you can physically watch a piece of iron change it’s crystal structure

  • @twelved4983
    @twelved4983 Рік тому +62

    For y’all surprised that Ice III exists alongside Ice II, you should probably know that Ice VII (7) exists as well. Idk how much higher the numbers go lol

    • @sadn7990
      @sadn7990 Рік тому +16

      Ice 19 that's how high

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 Рік тому +8

      Is Ice 3 a final release version, or is it still in early access ?

    • @twelved4983
      @twelved4983 Рік тому +8

      @@scratchy996 it’s actually been out for a while, just a bit under the radar. Not as popular as the other ices, but still holds its own against them.

  • @yellowwoodstraveler
    @yellowwoodstraveler Рік тому +274

    I asked this question about 25 years ago in my first ever high school science class. The science teacher went and got the chemistry teacher. He thought it was a great question but he didn't know what the actual answer was. I've never stopped wondering! I hope he's still around, I'll send this to him and see if he remembers me asking all those years ago.

    • @yellowwoodstraveler
      @yellowwoodstraveler Рік тому +11

      @@mileyardgigahertz we don't, trust me! That was one of the best ones in a school full of very good teachers. I had just finished at a school down the road and it was full of the teaching rejects. Awful school. Maybe someday I'll write a book but probably no one will believe it!

    • @LabGecko
      @LabGecko Рік тому +10

      @@mileyardgigahertz The majority are just doing a job - not passionate about teaching like mentioned above. Passionate teachers in the US exist, but they are the exception. However, those that are both passionate and good at teaching subjects leave enough impact on the students that the students remember and talk about them later, so you hear about them. No one wants to remember the bad ones.

    • @jimmypatton4982
      @jimmypatton4982 Рік тому +3

      I have had my share of good teachers, who cared about teaching and bad teachers who cared about nothing, except keeping their job.
      I would say the main difference was that the great teachers, where secure in their living situation. No matter outcomes of students, and they only taught because they loved it.
      I also realize that I was only in good schools where teachers made living wage and students where raised well and respected teachers.

    • @CommieApe
      @CommieApe Рік тому

      Mileyard American teachers are overworked and underpaid like everywhere else.

    • @arv1ndgr
      @arv1ndgr Рік тому

      @@mileyardgigahertz Well, Thanks for atleast puting it out..

  • @Amonimus
    @Amonimus Рік тому +831

    Not only there are different types of ice, there are about freaking 20 of them, depending on the pressure.

    • @solsystem1342
      @solsystem1342 Рік тому +36

      And temperature

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 Рік тому +71

      And even a few kinds that aren't stable at ANY pressure or temperature and need to be formed from clathrates.

    • @aaaaaattttttt5596
      @aaaaaattttttt5596 Рік тому +49

      @@garethdean6382 clath what now?

    • @IceHibiscus
      @IceHibiscus Рік тому +26

      Ice XIX is the newest form known to science, but it is entirely exotic and not able to be formed in nature. May there be more types to be discovered!

    • @IceHibiscus
      @IceHibiscus Рік тому +22

      @@aaaaaattttttt5596 Basically a foreign compound around which the water molecules arrange themselves.

  • @colin_henry5504
    @colin_henry5504 Рік тому +15

    Great explanation for triple point! Never understood how it works in practice until now

    • @xymaryai8283
      @xymaryai8283 5 місяців тому

      usually we think of the gas/liquid/solid point as _the_ triple point, but you have a point (heh) that this is a explanation of a triple point

  • @cuttingcut1321
    @cuttingcut1321 2 місяці тому +2

    Bro you answered it so simply. I wish I had you as my professor during my Engineering days....The professors kind of gave us tough times and we had to figure it out ourselves.

  • @TheLowey2002
    @TheLowey2002 Рік тому +2030

    Explaining complex topics so concisely in a minute is genius

    • @MindLaboratory
      @MindLaboratory Рік тому +81

      And 3 minutes is still pretty good

    • @gallium-gonzollium
      @gallium-gonzollium Рік тому +57

      @@MindLaboratory and pi minutes is a piece of cake

    • @steveoh9025
      @steveoh9025 Рік тому +21

      yeah, except it didn't explain, it just said there's two kinds of ice. could have been a 10 second video. now I've gotta go research "ice III" to learn the interesting part of the answer to the original question.

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @0011peace
      @0011peace Рік тому +1

      @@steveoh9025 ther are more than 2 that is why ice 1h and ice 3

  • @tildejustin
    @tildejustin Рік тому +1158

    Solid ice phases are actually extremely interesting, and there are quite a few of them. It's a fun research topic to expand (ha) your knowledge about crystalline structures and phase transitions.

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому +1

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @v44n7
      @v44n7 Рік тому +3

      almost 2k atm at -20°c if you make a small hole, water doesn't rush out like crazy fast? could that be used to make anything useful?

    • @BackYardScience2000
      @BackYardScience2000 Рік тому +9

      They are extremely interesting. Especially when you try to learn about all 19 phases of water ice.

    • @blockchaaain
      @blockchaaain Рік тому +12

      @@v44n7 idk about usefulness, but those exotic phases of ice probably exist on icy/watery worlds. Even in our Solar System.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 Рік тому +9

      @@blockchaaain Yep in fact they have found inclusions of ice 7 within diamonds brought up from Earth's mantle so even on Earth there isn't just ice 1 naturally occurring if you look deep enough down

  • @jacksonschuler3785
    @jacksonschuler3785 Рік тому +2

    Best explanation of a phase diagram, very well done.

  • @matthewshaffer9377
    @matthewshaffer9377 4 місяці тому +8

    If you lower pressure enough, the boiling point will decrease, so there is a point where if you freeze water in a low pressure environment, it will attempt to boil and freeze at the same time

    • @thedudeamongmengs2051
      @thedudeamongmengs2051 4 місяці тому +1

      This is actually a useful property. Freeze driers work by freezing a thing and then dropping the pressure so much that the ice evaporates rather than melting

    • @hoi-polloi1863
      @hoi-polloi1863 4 місяці тому

      A long time ago I read a scene like that in a sci fi book (can't remember which, more's the pity). Some aliens drop a bomb onto the surface of Europa, shattering it. The water underneath boils and freezes all at once!

  • @ducttapeengineer
    @ducttapeengineer Рік тому +802

    I think this deserves a follow up with the complete water phase diagram.

    • @KazmirRunik
      @KazmirRunik Рік тому +67

      That's a whole thing, probably longer than a minute, as different solid phases aren't concepts that just apply to water. For instance, common iron is known as alpha iron, while high-pressure iron can turn into epsilon iron, or hexaferrum. Carbon can be graphite or diamond. Oxygen has 8 different solid phases.
      The mechanisms involved in the creation of these are the exact same mechanisms that lead to the creation of ice III. The particles just pack into different arrangements because they don't have enough space to do what they'd do at the temperatures & pressures that we're used to.

    • @JohnnyBooi
      @JohnnyBooi Рік тому +15

      @@KazmirRunik Dope

    • @caleb8980
      @caleb8980 Рік тому +11

      @@KazmirRunik And don't even get started on phase diagrams of mixtures (Iron-Carbon for example) at which point the number of possible phases "explodes" depending on how mixable the constituents of the mixture are.
      Oh the sweet memories of having to memorize the entire Iron-Carbon-Diagram at atmospheric pressure and be able to draw it in the exam. Material engineering ftw! :D

    • @Kanbei11
      @Kanbei11 Рік тому +2

      Complete with supercritical water

    • @briand8090
      @briand8090 Рік тому +1

      Yeah, I would like to see the video on water in the vacuum of space.

  • @nehukybis
    @nehukybis Рік тому +147

    I think the most exciting phase of water is Ice IX, as described in a paper by K. Vonnegut, J. Jonah and K. Trout, appearing in the Summer 1963 edition of the journal "Cat's Cradle".

    • @jardel_lucca
      @jardel_lucca Рік тому +8

      This video reminded me of this classic too! Great research paper 😂 also digging into weird banned religions that seemingly everybody practices

    • @babaspector
      @babaspector Рік тому +4

      would be pretty interesting if it actually existed

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 Рік тому +7

      Almost as interesting as Asimov's Thiotimoline.

    • @InknbeansPress
      @InknbeansPress Рік тому +11

      You guys are a pack of geeks! I've never felt more at home.

    • @1gorSouz4
      @1gorSouz4 Рік тому

      You sound like you just made that up haha

  • @seriousnorbo3838
    @seriousnorbo3838 2 години тому +1

    Me: Trying to make a paradox
    Universe: You know what, screw you! **Updates my ice to ice 3**

  • @VietnamTravelGuide.
    @VietnamTravelGuide. Рік тому +1

    It's great to have your share on this.

  • @Michaelonyoutub
    @Michaelonyoutub Рік тому +245

    Please do a follow up video on the different kinds of ice and how they are formed. They are so interesting, I searched them up one day when looking into what would happen if a huge planet was made entirely of water, and the pressure would make interesting different kinds of ice like ice III. Seeing other comments, it seems others are interested in the different types too.

    • @mauricebenink
      @mauricebenink Рік тому +9

      Even cooler is that is technically possible if a planet is close enough to thier star to have a planet of ice that is on fire

    • @caterscarrots3407
      @caterscarrots3407 Рік тому +3

      @@mauricebenink Yeah, some ice only forms when it’s hot. And some only when it’s cold. And some under very low pressure, and some under enormously high pressure, it’s interesting just how many conditions will form ice.

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy Рік тому

      I think I don't remember. Wasn't it ice 7 that formed 'hot ice' you could call it. I remember a lot of numbers being jumped over

    • @ilikeceral3
      @ilikeceral3 Рік тому

      I think there is at least one actual exoplanet like that.

  • @Mike__B
    @Mike__B Рік тому +134

    Oh man I really missed these Minutephysics shorts. Thank you.

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @calholli
      @calholli Рік тому

      It's not a short

    • @Mike__B
      @Mike__B Рік тому +4

      @@calholli short in the sense that it's not a 15 minute video, not short in the sense that UA-cam is trying to compete with TikTok

    • @teppopierune5520
      @teppopierune5520 Рік тому

      @@calholli -😵‍💫

  • @OgdenM
    @OgdenM 4 місяці тому +5

    This is actually really hard to do though. You need super strong metals like you said and super strong joints and then there is the issue of how the container is closed. ... like threads are weak etc etc.

  • @MahraiZiller
    @MahraiZiller 2 місяці тому +2

    Now I understand at a basic level the different versions of ice. Cheers 👍

  • @Celestial-yq6hz
    @Celestial-yq6hz Рік тому +326

    I’ve seen others try it, it mostly involved the (metal)container bursting open as the water froze

    • @appa609
      @appa609 Рік тому +69

      1850 bar is a lot of pressure. For a cylindrical mild steel vessel, you'd need about a 2.5" outer diameter to support a 1" inner diameter solid pressure vessel.

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 Рік тому +42

      the whole point of the thought experiment is that it can handle much higher pressures than the random stuff you find around your house or even chem labs.

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @JoeARedHawk275
      @JoeARedHawk275 Рік тому +8

      Bro you really think scientists and minutephysics would ask this question for a random household plastic or glass container? Maybe I just missed your sarcasm.

    • @Celestial-yq6hz
      @Celestial-yq6hz Рік тому +5

      @@JoeARedHawk275 I meant it was a metal container 😅

  • @tajwar9547
    @tajwar9547 Рік тому +138

    We just covered phase diagrams in Solid State Chemistry. Super interesting and simple to understand.

    • @self-proclaimedanimator
      @self-proclaimedanimator Рік тому

      CBSE gang here

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @GemAppleTom
      @GemAppleTom Рік тому +6

      You’ll come to regret calling it simple… the basics are but you’ll find out it’s a lot more complicated but even more interesting 😊

  • @TheThinkersBible
    @TheThinkersBible Рік тому +2

    This is a well, "Brilliant" 🙂 explanation of a very unusual corner case in physics. Thanks for sharing!

  • @brunetteordie
    @brunetteordie Рік тому +1

    In the extreme, the pressure on the atomic structure, if not allowed to crystalize, will force a fracturing of normal space, into subspace, causing a rift in the space-time continuum. This can be contained using a static warp shell. It can then be successfully repaired by hitting it with a focused inverse tachyon pulse.

  • @HershO.
    @HershO. Рік тому +54

    I heard back in like 2019 in some TV show(Discovery channel I think) that there are 7 different such types of ice, all at different pressure and temperature conditions. This gave me some nostalgia.

    • @yaykruser
      @yaykruser Рік тому +16

      there are 18 differjt rypes of Ice...

    • @HershO.
      @HershO. Рік тому +3

      ​@@yaykruser ohh thanks.

    • @Splarkszter
      @Splarkszter Рік тому

      Discovery channel did a good job of introducing people to science. The only bad thing is that 90% of the time is very outdated or sometimes wrong information.
      But we know that what makes them money is naked people ""surviving"" in very unhealthy situations, i hate average people.

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @Optimistas777
      @Optimistas777 Рік тому

      @@yaykruser there's more, check wikipedia

  • @bgtherobit
    @bgtherobit 5 місяців тому +3

    unrelated to the main topic of the video but i love how the music sounds like the music that plays when theyre drawing in the notebook on blues clues lmao.

  • @seamusriley4503
    @seamusriley4503 2 місяці тому

    I've been wondering this for literal years. Thank you.

  • @MayorMcC666
    @MayorMcC666 Рік тому +28

    its amazing you are still dropping classic videos after all these years. kudos people will be watcing these videos for decades.

  • @Minty_Mane
    @Minty_Mane Рік тому +87

    I've actually seen an example of this recently! I put a can of pepsi in the freezer just to see what would happen.
    At first it expanded and the can bulged out, and I assumed it had stopped expanding and all the liquid had frozen after a couple days. But then at some point the can burst, and sprayed liquid pepsi all over the inside of my freezer! When I looked inside, it kind of looked like it had formed horizontal stalagmites on the door of the freezer, almost as though it had frozen instantly upon touching the wall or even in mid-air, which makes sense considering it would have been below the freezing point by then, and would have gotten even colder when the can burst due to the sudden expansion of the pepsi!

    • @LittleWhole
      @LittleWhole Рік тому +20

      Yep, a related concept is that of "superchilling". A liquid can be superchilled well below its freezing point but still stay as a liquid, but when some sort of external force or agitation is undergone, it will suddenly and almost instantaneously freeze.

    • @ragingfirefrog
      @ragingfirefrog Рік тому +7

      @@LittleWhole Even more interesting is that a type of hand warmer uses superchilling to produce heat. Not the most effective thing but still interesting nonetheless.

    • @Minty_Mane
      @Minty_Mane Рік тому +4

      @@ragingfirefrog I actually have a few of those reusable hand warmers, very useful where I live since its so cold in winter.

    • @stephenolan5539
      @stephenolan5539 Рік тому +1

      The soluabilty of a gas in liquid varies inversely with temperature. So the pressure from the CO2 would decrease. But afaik it is not dissolved in any ice that forms. Which means the pressure increases as there is less liquid to dissolve the gas.

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 Рік тому +3

      I forgot 3 energy drinks in the freezer. A Coke Energy, a Burn and a Red Bull. The Coke and Burn broke the can and froze. The Red Bull didn't freeze. It looks like Red Bull is so toxic, it contains anti-freeze instead of water.

  • @fenna_pel
    @fenna_pel 2 місяці тому

    On frozen over lakes you can see, when its cold enough, that cold ice has higher density then warmer ice. The top surface will show hollow dish like shapes with surface cracks. At atmospheric-ish pressure this should be visable from around -15°C and colder. The exposed to air top layer shrinks while the lower, exposed to water layer does not. Also the thickness of the ice should not be too much. Thicker ice is more resiliant to this dish forming effect.

  • @OniMetsuki
    @OniMetsuki Рік тому

    Also note that Very high pressure ice also melts at a higher temperature.
    For example from about 6k bar it's melting temperature starts dramatically increasing. At almost 100k bar it is frozen and that type of ice only starts melting at about 330c. More pressure and temps keep increasing for melting point.
    Of interest if the pressure is dropped some types of ice (formed at High pressure) at 1 atm will still have an increased melting point mildly above 0c. From memory of a documentary many Years ago it was somewhere between 3 to 7c but don't hold me to that part, but is about right I think - bit tired at the moment. They were doing experiments with a diamond anvil cell.

  • @TallinuTV
    @TallinuTV Рік тому +17

    Fascinating. I’d heard that people had discovered a bunch more phases of water/ice, but I had no idea there was one which contracted instead of expanding, and this explanation of how you get to it is great!

  • @M_1024
    @M_1024 Рік тому +29

    Please make a video about Information Paradox (and why information can't be lost)

  • @DarkonFullPower
    @DarkonFullPower 2 місяці тому +2

    "If Ice is so cool, why haven't have made Ice II yet?"
    Physics: "Bro we're at, like, Ice XIX right now."

  • @jdspencer60
    @jdspencer60 Рік тому

    You can also boil water at very low temperatures like 140 degrees farenheit, we used "vac boilers" to clean out old printer cartridges at one of my old jobs. the boiling happens and creates amazing agitation but the water is only 140-150 F so it doesn't damage them

    • @Xnoob545
      @Xnoob545 15 днів тому

      I boiled water at that temperature by sucking some up in a syringe, blocking off the entry hole, and then pulling on it. The inside space increases by like multiple times, which decreases the pressure, and the water boils
      At first the syringe wants to collapse but if you hold it at the expanded position eventually the pressure from the water vapour makes the stretched position the "default" instead of it being forced

  • @Noisivus
    @Noisivus Рік тому +37

    I’ve heard about stuff like ice 7 that’s alleged to make up the sea floor on planets with remarkably deep oceans and been found on earth too by diamond mining operations. Idk if it’s more or less dense than water though but definitely denser than regular ice

    • @solsystem1342
      @solsystem1342 Рік тому +2

      I think the gas giants have some. Although they have way more liquid hydrogen than ice anyways.

    • @neopalm2050
      @neopalm2050 Рік тому +7

      @@solsystem1342 Gas giants are supposed to have Ice XVIII (18). It's pretty wild. It's basically an "anti-metal" or something. Instead of having a lattice of positive metal ions in a sea of electrons, this has a lattice of negative oxygen ions in a sea of protons (hydrogen ions).

  • @AllAmericanBeaner68
    @AllAmericanBeaner68 Рік тому +77

    Neat video, I was hoping you would bring up Ice 7 though that forms at over 3GPa!

    • @Ivancal72
      @Ivancal72 Рік тому +9

      wtf 7 different kind of ice? what I've missed

    • @xtieburn
      @xtieburn Рік тому +32

      ​@@Ivancal72 Not 7, apparently 19. at least, last I checked. There is potential for many more.

    • @HercadosP
      @HercadosP Рік тому +5

      @@xtieburn water is weird af. Life is remarkable for relying on it so much, although I do wonder how would nonpolar life look like

    • @enricobianchi4499
      @enricobianchi4499 Рік тому +9

      @@HercadosP like nothing probably, polar compounds are probably an important part of what even allows chemical compounds to have enough degrees of complexity to make life happen

    • @blak4831
      @blak4831 Рік тому +6

      @@Ivancal72 They're mostly different ways of arranging the water molecules into crystals. Because water is such a simple molecule there's a lot of ways to do that, but because of complicated physics reasons most of these ways are really, really difficult to make happen so we mostly end up with ice 1h

  • @aquarius5264
    @aquarius5264 4 місяці тому +2

    i dig the solo double bass in the background

  • @shadowhawk320
    @shadowhawk320 Рік тому

    this is a question I've pondered about in the shower for years.
    Thank you.

  • @salehhouimi1835
    @salehhouimi1835 Рік тому +5

    I was just wondering why didn't you post anything new for a while. Love what you do. Keep going ❤️

  • @TannerSwizel
    @TannerSwizel Рік тому +10

    I think the first time I had ever heard there are different phases of ice was reading about a hypothetical planet's ocean being an order of magnitude deeper than Earth's. The pressure found deep in this ultra deep ocean forces water to freeze in this manner and forms the seafloor. For a planet the size of Earth I think it's around 65km in depth to get like this.

    • @mdkooter
      @mdkooter Рік тому

      I think I've seen the same video, because after reading your text I suddenly came to the realisation that I also first heard of Ice-types in such a condition. Thanks! :)

    • @hoi-polloi1863
      @hoi-polloi1863 4 місяці тому

      Hmm... Ice-1 is barely less dense than water. If Ice-3 is denser than water, seems like it would build up on the seafloor over time, potentially causing any number of awkward problems!

  • @kabj06
    @kabj06 8 місяців тому +1

    honey, come quick, ice 3 just dropped

  • @runderdfrech3560
    @runderdfrech3560 Рік тому

    This was a question I had years ago in school. Thank you that you aswered it.

  • @BAMTV-wz7jj
    @BAMTV-wz7jj Рік тому +22

    I've thought about this before and it's cool to see someone tell me the answer.

    • @VeganSemihCyprus33
      @VeganSemihCyprus33 Рік тому +1

      The Connections (2021) [short documentary]

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Рік тому

      @@VeganSemihCyprus33 Why don't you take a long hike off a short pier.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Рік тому +1

      Just wait until you hear 'bout the other 18 forms of ice.

    • @BAMTV-wz7jj
      @BAMTV-wz7jj Рік тому

      @@kindlin wait there’s more 😅

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Рік тому +1

      @@BAMTV-wz7jj
      So much more....
      Water, one of the most simple and common molecules around us, is actually one of the most complex behaving molecules we've studied.

  • @MrThis1dude
    @MrThis1dude Рік тому +18

    I love learning but I love cheesy puns more! Henry, so many bonus points!

    • @themexis
      @themexis Рік тому +1

      That ice-suspect kept me watching til the end of the video.

  • @vayne06
    @vayne06 Рік тому

    We were taught something like that in physics. I know that an increase in pressure decreases the water freezing point, from zero to some negative, depending on the new pressure. There's even an equation that includes temperature, pressure and volume

  • @matthewhenthorn3343
    @matthewhenthorn3343 Рік тому

    i think that below a certain depth in the ocean, it is techniqucally below freezing but due to the pressure it doesn't freeze. i heard something like that on an attenborough doc, or it could have been that water around hydrothermal vents were many times hotter than boiling but couldn't due to pressure.

  • @blackamaterasuflame
    @blackamaterasuflame Рік тому +10

    Ive wondered this my entire life. Thank you

    • @ChadEichhorn
      @ChadEichhorn Рік тому +2

      sounds like you would really enjoy watching some lectures on intro materials science! phase diagrams are super cool!

  • @Mr_CraftyFR
    @Mr_CraftyFR Рік тому +14

    I got a question:
    If you got an object which the mass is just below the mass needed to create a black hole, you take that material and you accelerate it by like, throwing it really fast or not.
    *Will this material become a blackhole?*

    • @Coastfog
      @Coastfog Рік тому

      Since e=mc^2, yes. But no.

    • @bronzejourney5784
      @bronzejourney5784 Рік тому +2

      I like the way you think, keep being curious.

    • @SlimThrull
      @SlimThrull Рік тому +1

      No. Mass doesn't increase with speed, gamma does. Here's a video explaining it very, very well: ua-cam.com/video/LTJauaefTZM/v-deo.html
      Edit: Gamma, not Lambda.

    • @WanderTheNomad
      @WanderTheNomad Рік тому

      @@SlimThrull Thanks for the video 👍

    • @Mr_CraftyFR
      @Mr_CraftyFR Рік тому +2

      @@SlimThrull But if you increase the speed, the material will colide with the air and it will increase it's mass if the molecule in the air sticks to the material

  • @glitchgatsby4290
    @glitchgatsby4290 Рік тому +1

    This helped solidify my understanding of triple points

  • @joshgiesbrecht
    @joshgiesbrecht 2 місяці тому

    I’ve pondered this question for years and nobody’s been able to give me a solid (pun…intended?) answer. Thank you for this!

  • @lsedge7280
    @lsedge7280 Рік тому +6

    This is a great video, it explains phase diagrams really well, I think maybe the only criticism is that the word "equilibrium" would've been nice at the end, as often when you get an apparent paradox point in a changing system, what you really reach is an equilibrium (forces influencing one way equal forces influencing the other).
    What I will say as something you've taught me, ICE III CONTRACTS? I knew different types of ice existed and had differing properties, but it contracts, that's wild. I would love a video on the different types of ice honestly.

    • @Archimedes.5000
      @Archimedes.5000 Рік тому +2

      Well, most substances contract when solidifying, water is the exception, and it's the reason why the phase diagram is different for it as well

    • @killerbee.13
      @killerbee.13 Рік тому +6

      Almost every material contracts as it freezes. Water happens to have a unusual (near-unique) combination of a relatively dense liquid phase (due to hydrogen bonds) and the least dense solid phase it can given its bond length (different crystal structures have different 'packing factors' and ice Ih is the least efficient of any of the common crystal structures, if I remember correctly), and even then the efficiency difference is quite small and ice only expands by like 10%. But other ice phases have other crystal structures (this is actually the primary way a crystal phase is defined), which I think all have higher packing factors than ice Ih. So, pretty much every other phase of ice is denser than regular ice, and I don't think there are any others that are less dense than liquid water. There are like 18 of them and I didn't check them all.
      There are other materials with the same crystal structure as ice Ih, but their liquid phases aren't as dense as water's so they still contract when freezing, just not by as much as some other materials.
      For some reason the actual packing factors of various crystal structures are incredibly difficult to find online, outside of the 5 most common crystal structures that metals and stuff have. I can't find ice Ih's packing factor at all and I've been looking for like 30 minutes. You'd think this would be a pretty basic thing, as it's a very simple geometry problem, but I can't even find the parameters I'd need to calculate it myself.

    • @WanderTheNomad
      @WanderTheNomad Рік тому

      @@Archimedes.5000 Ice 3 contracting is like North Korea becoming more democratic. It's normal for other countries, but still very strange for North Korea.
      Contracting while solidifying is normal for other elements, but very strange for water.

  • @DaeronRT
    @DaeronRT Рік тому +10

    Wow, this remind me those when as soon you open a sealed bottle of water it freezes completely. But also we can do the opposite bt bolling water on a fully airtight bottle and toss it in the fire, I used to do that on some camping trips when we forgot to bring kettle. Pressure can do wonders if you know how to take advantage from

  • @TheNeilBlack
    @TheNeilBlack Рік тому

    Thank you for this. I wondered about this for years as a kid.

  • @MrWeezer55
    @MrWeezer55 Рік тому +1

    This is very cool (ha). I first read about this years ago in a book self-published by a cranky ex-meteorologist in Oregon. He was explaining supercooled water and showed how, for a tiny droplet of water in a cloud, surface tension is enough to keep the water liquid below freezing. This is what makes these clouds so dangerous to airplanes.

  • @Splarkszter
    @Splarkszter Рік тому +3

    i would love that you included a clip of what would have happened if the container can't withstand infinite pressures.

  • @j0hncramer
    @j0hncramer Рік тому +24

    you just gonna gloss over the fact that there is apparently an ice 3? tell us about the magic ice!

    • @MyBiPolarBearMax
      @MyBiPolarBearMax Рік тому +14

      Waitll you hear about ice-9!

    • @whuzzzup
      @whuzzzup Рік тому +1

      There are far more (water) ice crystal structures than just 3.

    • @stargazer7644
      @stargazer7644 Рік тому

      There are 18 known phases of ice. Probably more unknown ones.

  • @kexcz8276
    @kexcz8276 4 місяці тому

    Lol. I had just completely learned phase diagrams for Steel- Fe3C, and it became obvious right away what will happen, although with iron, we can ignore the pressure because it doesn't do much with solids, thus we can use the Gibb's phase law with just +1 , but with +2 when it is water . Nice video!

  • @doxielain2231
    @doxielain2231 Рік тому +1

    It amazes me the pressures that system can reach.

  • @a1919akelbo
    @a1919akelbo Рік тому +10

    Interesting side fact: because if the low surface area with the body weight of a human, skates cause the ice bellow it to melt which is what causes you to glide so smoothly.

    • @Rotem_S
      @Rotem_S Рік тому +4

      iirc this has been partially debunked - ice below some temperature (minus 6 Celsius or something?) can't melt enough to support skating through pressure melting alone, so there are other effects that help skate

    • @dont-want-no-wrench
      @dont-want-no-wrench Рік тому +1

      considering the surface area by weight of my ass, ice can support a skater quite well.

  • @trevorgrover5619
    @trevorgrover5619 Рік тому +88

    I feel like we need a video on every phase of matter water has

    • @zachcrawford5
      @zachcrawford5 Рік тому +6

      That is going to be a long (but awesome) video lol.

    • @grahamfraser1990
      @grahamfraser1990 Рік тому

      I'm lost right away. Water can melt? lol.

  • @Klatski
    @Klatski Рік тому +6

    2:04 so this is where Ice-9 in Zero Escape 999 comes from?? :O

    • @WilliamLeeSims
      @WilliamLeeSims Рік тому +3

      Ice-9 originally came from the book "Cat's Cradle".

    • @Klatski
      @Klatski Рік тому

      @@WilliamLeeSims ...which came from this

  • @hommhommhomm
    @hommhommhomm 3 місяці тому +1

    Imagine the meeting where the CEO demanded that unlike other materials, water has to expand when becoming solid, and then the engineers went like, but what if it can't expand and they went over different scenarios and chose this and after that a bunch of senior engineers quitted but it became a good product in the end.

    • @Tresla
      @Tresla 3 місяці тому +1

      Ice3 is just version 3 of ice, after 2 major iterations, all the bugs have been solved.

    • @o0Donuts0o
      @o0Donuts0o 3 місяці тому +2

      Ice 3 will be successful but ice 4 changes to a subscription model. Ice 5 is then bought by EA and from then on ice 5-20 are just annual releases that look the same.

  • @ahreuwu
    @ahreuwu Рік тому

    this whole ice iii business is a brand new world to me, guess I have some googling to do later! loved the ending haha

  • @paulwesley3862
    @paulwesley3862 Рік тому +3

    another interesting point is where the three lines of the phase diagram meet: the Triple Point where water freezes and boiles simultaneously

  • @ShlokParab
    @ShlokParab Рік тому +4

    Before : so there's a paradox here
    After : There exists something called ice 3
    Me: that's cheating

  • @arooobine
    @arooobine Рік тому +1

    So what happens if you take ice III and reduce the pressure but hold temperature constant? The phase diagram says it'll turn into ice I. But what does that look like? Will it suddenly explode into snow or what?

  • @jacknolan6170
    @jacknolan6170 Рік тому

    i haven’t started the video yet but i’ve wondered about this question for the longest time

  • @colonelthreehat1153
    @colonelthreehat1153 6 місяців тому +3

    of all the answers i was expecting for this problem, trans rights for ice was not one of them

  • @richardgarrison5286
    @richardgarrison5286 Рік тому +2

    You blow my mind dude

  • @zumabbar
    @zumabbar Рік тому

    what would it look like on P-V diagram? i think it's more helpful to see it there since's isochoric process would be a vertical straight line. but i guess it would be harder to illustrase the temperature lines, since most people would imagine cooling or heating with temperature changes.

  • @bdub8442
    @bdub8442 Рік тому +2

    There’s actually higher ice numbers too but it gets very technical

  • @prometheus7387
    @prometheus7387 Рік тому +12

    Water is like this very mystical compound that seemingly defies the laws of physics

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Рік тому

      All the way back in the late 90s, the EU did a huge study to compare the quality of school education between member countries by letting kids take a number of voluntary, non-graded exams on a wide range of subjects.
      I was one of the kids selected in Germany, and the one test question I remember was to write a one-page reply to the question "What would be the effects on nature if frozen water did not float?"
      And it's really easy to fill a page once you start going down that rabbit hole.

  • @thehiddenninja3428
    @thehiddenninja3428 Рік тому +4

    Why would anyone think there was a paradox here and not simply that it'll reach equilibrium?

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 Рік тому +1

      The 'Preface paradox' is a whole big thing about how a book noting that it may have errors in it is crazy. The 'Temperature paradox' is literally 'The temperature is rising. The temperature is ninety. Therefore, ninety is rising.'
      Paradoxes as a whole can be astoundingly dumb.

  • @pacificostudios
    @pacificostudios Рік тому +1

    I remember studying this in college, Mostly I remember learning about the Triple Point. Water is definitely more interesting than most people think it is.

  • @bmurali5128
    @bmurali5128 Рік тому

    Didn’t know that! Thanks for the knowledge

  • @ryuuzaki24
    @ryuuzaki24 Рік тому +3

    I'm rooting for Ice 9 (RIP San Lorenzo Island)

  • @MYLITTLEPWNY97
    @MYLITTLEPWNY97 Рік тому +3

    Damn Ice 3 is already out? I havent even tried ice 2 yet :(

  • @trooom350
    @trooom350 Рік тому

    Does this relate at all to snow compressing and freezing blue in a glacier? I always thought that was neat having super dense ice with very little trapped air

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka Рік тому +1

    I always wondered what happen if you expand a metal ring, then put it on a rod snugly and then let it cool down. Will it snap the rod? Will it cool down slower?

  • @therealrooster
    @therealrooster Рік тому +3

    So... what happens when you open the container with the highly pressurized, but solidly frozen ice?

    • @whuzzzup
      @whuzzzup Рік тому +2

      Depends on the temperature. It either melts or sublimates. Just look it up in the phase diagram.

    • @yaykruser
      @yaykruser Рік тому

      It would probably just spray out , did It with gallium and a steel ball : ua-cam.com/video/bAlGdTTk7Kg/v-deo.html

    • @garethdean6382
      @garethdean6382 Рік тому +1

      If it's close to the melting point (at that pressure!) it will quickly form ice I, expanding significantly quite quickly. If it's colder then ice III is more stable and the transition is slower.

  • @kobil316SH
    @kobil316SH Рік тому +4

    Wait wtf is ice 3???

    • @carultch
      @carultch Рік тому

      It's a different crystal structure of ice, than the standard ice you normally experience.

  • @zacharywilson9876
    @zacharywilson9876 Рік тому

    When you've just taken a thermodynamics exam and minute physics decides to bust through half your course in one video

  • @raine6813
    @raine6813 Рік тому

    ive been thinking of something similar for a while now, you know how when you put borax into hot water it turns into crystals that attach to the surface of the container once it cools down because hot water can hold more sediments than cold water, and the excess borax to go somewhere? well what if you did that experiment on water that wasnt held in a physical container? like what if you did it in zero gravity in space in a ball of water just floating around? where would the crystals form?

  • @emerald3190
    @emerald3190 4 місяці тому +37

    the enby jokes earned my subscription and made my day thabk you

    • @Kara_Kay_Eschel
      @Kara_Kay_Eschel 2 місяці тому +2

      I was looking for something like this

    • @Link9058
      @Link9058 2 місяці тому +6

      Non-binary is also just a regular phrase to refer to something which has more than 2 options.

  • @xanderkiela
    @xanderkiela Рік тому +3

    Cool

  • @The1stDukeDroklar
    @The1stDukeDroklar Рік тому

    Hmmm, makes me wonder what happens to water under pressure without anywhere to escape or room for it to expand and turn to vapor? How long would the container remain hot? and How hot for how long? Just wondering if that could somehow be used as a long lasting heat battery. I'm sure the energy lost through the container as heat will affect the system but how and what would that do?

  • @somedudewatchingyoutube9163

    This channel is the embodiment of “I don’t understand but it sure hell is entertaining”

  • @mathmusicandlooks
    @mathmusicandlooks Рік тому +4

    Keep in mind that this is under the assumption that the ice/water system is maintained at a constant temperature. There is also latent heat of fusion involved. If your container were INSULATED from any transfer of heat, then as soon as any water would freeze, it would heat up the surrounding water since crystallization is an exothermic process. That heat would transfer back into the ice, allowing it to melt again. So a thermally isolated system would undergo no phase change. Everything in this video assumed temperature constant, which would actually require you to pump heat away from the system to get it to freeze still.

    • @-IE_it_yourself
      @-IE_it_yourself Рік тому +1

      neglecting friction :D every text book does it. but good point you have to state your assumptions.

  • @Vort_tm
    @Vort_tm Рік тому +4

    Fairly low level chemistry but despite knowing the concepts (I mean, I have a degree in it...) oddly satisfying to watch. Thanks!

  • @catkeys6911
    @catkeys6911 3 місяці тому

    Freezing water causes a hell of a lot of pressure, though - I remember a demonstration photographed in a Time-Life book (circa late 60's) in which a thick, hollow cast iron ball (about 5-6" in dia) was filled with water, sealed with a screw-in plug, and lowered into a tub of liquid nitrogen, This was done in a small observation room with a remote, robotic winch controlled by a scientist watching through a small, thick, shatterproof glass window. After a few seconds of immersion, the cast iron ball exploded, with shards of it getting imbedded in the steel door to the observation room.

  • @ilovesemen2345
    @ilovesemen2345 8 місяців тому

    Didn't know ice could be this interesting of all things