How Hard Is It To Freeze Flowing Water?

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  • Опубліковано 27 лют 2021
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    In this video I experiment to see if it is possible to freeze water that is constantly flowing or being mixed. What does it look like? Why does flowing water seem to not freeze when everything else around it does?
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  3 роки тому +1312

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  • @user-wr2uy9pj4m
    @user-wr2uy9pj4m 3 роки тому +5673

    Cartoons: "actually it's super easy, barely an inconvenience"

  • @fawazar6670
    @fawazar6670 3 роки тому +2461

    Nobody:
    UA-camrs when they need ice: LIQUID NITROGEN

    • @sreyash3997
      @sreyash3997 3 роки тому +33

      Technically using the word UA-camr is incorrect

    • @ZephSpiral
      @ZephSpiral 3 роки тому +88

      @@sreyash3997 how

    • @sreyash3997
      @sreyash3997 3 роки тому +33

      @@ZephSpiral becz not just youtubers its used by scientists and people who do experiments. here he is doing the same.

    • @higfatforever4503
      @higfatforever4503 3 роки тому +77

      I mean, it is one of the coldest things to easily get

    • @Dennys787
      @Dennys787 3 роки тому +170

      @@sreyash3997 Using UA-camr isn't incorrect. UA-camrs are part of the group of people that might use Liquid Nitrogen. Mentioning them doesn't exclude other people.

  • @maximilianstockeler7057
    @maximilianstockeler7057 Рік тому +416

    Once as a kid ive Seen a frozen waterall and was wondering how thats possible gut it looked amazing

    • @user-oy7wk9tk7u
      @user-oy7wk9tk7u Рік тому +11

      my dad sometimes climbes up them

    • @alexandermcclure6185
      @alexandermcclure6185 Рік тому +8

      Fun fact: Icicles are just frozen (mini) waterfalls.

    • @mkseed9188
      @mkseed9188 Рік тому +29

      @@alexandermcclure6185 no. No they aren’t

    • @mkseed9188
      @mkseed9188 Рік тому +9

      @@alexandermcclure6185 go back to school

    • @kitsilanocat
      @kitsilanocat Рік тому +5

      Do they teach icicle science in school... I must have missed that.
      Isn't he right though?

  • @Dh-hg5ym
    @Dh-hg5ym Рік тому +37

    Creeks are my fave example of freezing moving water one by my house flows like a river and we used to stand on the really thick clear ice and watch it and some little fish

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something 3 роки тому +2662

    "Can you freeze a liquid while it's moving?"
    7-Eleven Slurpee Machine: "Like two days out of the week, maybe."

    • @HarveyShankar
      @HarveyShankar 3 роки тому +18

      Good one

    • @gunsmjl
      @gunsmjl 3 роки тому +48

      Thank you! I was going to say, anyone who has had a Slurpee should already know the answer to this question. You just worded it better.

    • @pws3rd170
      @pws3rd170 3 роки тому +56

      McDonalds Ice cream machine: no

    • @wetwaterbucket3390
      @wetwaterbucket3390 3 роки тому +12

      @@gunsmjl well a slushy isn't fully frozen :/

    • @noodlemaster4997
      @noodlemaster4997 3 роки тому +8

      @@wetwaterbucket3390 :/ r/facepalm

  • @PlasmaChannel
    @PlasmaChannel 3 роки тому +5053

    I’ll hand it to you, that frozen whirlpool is actually pretty cool.

  • @matthewspence7476
    @matthewspence7476 2 роки тому +115

    Your channel is so underrated. Your love for science has taught millions at least something they didn't know

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      @adonisdaou7772 2 роки тому +8

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    • @yaellevi5448
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  • @danielb3299
    @danielb3299 2 роки тому

    Your videos are getting better and better, keep it up :)

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  • @ArriEllieJelly
    @ArriEllieJelly 3 роки тому +1626

    Frozen waterfalls: “What, am I a joke to you?”

    • @Neph1944
      @Neph1944 3 роки тому +56

      The am I a joke to u guy" am I a joke to you? ”

    • @maximpouliot8634
      @maximpouliot8634 3 роки тому +105

      @@aaronalagos45 i live in canada and i have seen frozen waterfall, one day my cousin destroyed one and it was just ice... and the poo in my pants

    • @areeeash1124
      @areeeash1124 3 роки тому +9

      @@aaronalagos45 "frozed"

    • @alextaylor8218
      @alextaylor8218 3 роки тому +18

      @@aaronalagos45 yes, but the outside was moving at once, therefore moving water can be frozen

    • @legohexman2858
      @legohexman2858 3 роки тому +1

      @@maximpouliot8634 lol

  • @TheReaverOfDarkness
    @TheReaverOfDarkness 2 роки тому

    Good content as usual, title and thumbnail aren't misleading which is unusual. Mad props!

  • @varunahlawat9013
    @varunahlawat9013 Рік тому

    The concept of latent heat should've also touched in this video it would help me understand what latent heat exactly is!
    I finally had a little better intuition, which was the reason I have subscribed to The Action Lab. Thanks man!

  • @TheCaptives23
    @TheCaptives23 3 роки тому +8701

    People get liquid nitrogen like its milk at a grocery store or something

    • @Garresh1
      @Garresh1 3 роки тому +916

      @@shaizeeshows1850 It's just used in too much for industrial scientific and educational purposes. And as dangerous as it is in direct contact, it's not like you can use it in a terrorist attack or something. A huge percentage of normal air you breath is nitrogen. It's incredibly common and remarkably inert. Nitrates(chemicals with nitrogen bound to them) are often extremely explosive, because nitrogen REALLY wants to be only bound to itself and inert. But pure nitrogen itself, even in liquid form, isn't really dangerous from a public safety perspective.

    • @EpicAndrew97
      @EpicAndrew97 3 роки тому +33

      200th like

    • @Retrenorium
      @Retrenorium 3 роки тому +110

      @@Garresh1 well you can use it to rob places, freezee and smash, from what I saw in yt videos about it

    • @crazy4bricksthebrickbrothe722
      @crazy4bricksthebrickbrothe722 3 роки тому +466

      What, are you saying you DON’T use liquid nitrogen in your cereal?

    • @leif1075
      @leif1075 3 роки тому +27

      @@pielord33321 whatbthe heck is dewar?? Am i the only one who doesn't know?

  • @axolotl593
    @axolotl593 3 роки тому +1092

    Imagine just swimming in a stream and this man just... *freezes* it

    • @Solotocius
      @Solotocius 3 роки тому +32

      this guy is the embodiment of **hits blunt**

    • @GlovedGame
      @GlovedGame 3 роки тому +8

      That would be scary lmao

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 3 роки тому +4

      Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1 epizode 12 intensifies.

    • @socks8056
      @socks8056 3 роки тому

      Water go brrr

    • @Meat_Beat250r
      @Meat_Beat250r 3 роки тому

      Bahaha

  • @joshewing3504
    @joshewing3504 2 роки тому

    This channel answers all of my deepest questions!

  • @theoverseer393
    @theoverseer393 2 роки тому +34

    considering that water that froze never froze the waterfall, I believe it's incredibly difficult
    also, 2:50 the thermometer is a nucleation site!

  • @h7opolo
    @h7opolo 3 роки тому +655

    you should've incorporated some thermal imaging in this demo.

    • @vctoothpick1455
      @vctoothpick1455 3 роки тому +9

      I second this

    • @HelloWorld-br5qg
      @HelloWorld-br5qg 3 роки тому +15

      I thought thermal imaging was for temperature above 0°C, not really sure if it works for below 0 degrees.
      Edit : Okay they work below 0°C too!

    • @TechSupportDave
      @TechSupportDave 3 роки тому +5

      @@HelloWorld-br5qg I'm not too sure with thermal imaging devices specifically, but typically with electronic devices there's a calibration element that allows you to adjust the sensitivity of the sensors. Without an element like this, the thermal imaging device would not be universally usable and you'd have to purchase different thermal imaging devices depending on what you're using it on.... which is obviously a bit stupid.

    • @karangupta4978
      @karangupta4978 3 роки тому +11

      @@HelloWorld-br5qg I'm not sure if you know but 0°C is not 0 Kelvin... So even -270°C must show some heat in thermal imaging because it's not absolute 0 (0 Kelvin). Of course considering the sensitivity of the sensors and practical problems of the device.

    • @HelloWorld-br5qg
      @HelloWorld-br5qg 3 роки тому +5

      @@karangupta4978 yeah makes sense. Even if the range of thermal camera starts at 200K, it would work really well for this experiment*.

  • @vishnuprakash9348
    @vishnuprakash9348 3 роки тому +220

    Does anybody remember an episode in Tom and Jerry where the wire from the fridge touches water overflowing from the sink and it just turns the whole room into some sort of ice heaven,lol .It was one of my favourite episodes and this video just made me remember it.

    • @krapzy1471
      @krapzy1471 3 роки тому +4

      Yea

    • @ahmedkudo8743
      @ahmedkudo8743 3 роки тому +6

      lol yeah.. if you can give me the episode title I'd be grateful 😆

    • @ATM648
      @ATM648 3 роки тому +12

      Great episode, easily the peak of Tom and Jerry, it went down hill from there.

    • @clarkbrowngaming350
      @clarkbrowngaming350 3 роки тому +11

      @@ahmedkudo8743 mice follies

    • @ahmedkudo8743
      @ahmedkudo8743 3 роки тому +1

      @@clarkbrowngaming350 oh thank you 😊

  • @turkeybywhatmeans
    @turkeybywhatmeans 2 роки тому +8

    3:25 when the water is SUS

  • @actros_l8567
    @actros_l8567 2 роки тому +15

    3:33
    Yeah
    Reminded me when i put a pepsi bottle in a freezer and then ehen i open the bottle it instantly freezes making it taste amazing :)

  • @Dodl1
    @Dodl1 3 роки тому +666

    Actually my dad wrote his doctor thesis about this whole topic, so interesting!!!

    • @lukedowneslukedownes5900
      @lukedowneslukedownes5900 3 роки тому +15

      What kind of doctor? Can I read it

    • @agentranger
      @agentranger 3 роки тому +47

      I'll change this comment later.

    • @therisenphoenix6113
      @therisenphoenix6113 3 роки тому +4

      @@agentranger yeah same

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 3 роки тому +52

      Your dad must be... _cool._ *CSI music starts*

    • @hala8660
      @hala8660 3 роки тому +5

      @@lukedowneslukedownes5900 i also have the same 2 questions

  • @blindvic4334
    @blindvic4334 3 роки тому +843

    "Usually you see river water flowing at winter"
    Russians: "Doubt"

  • @mrpinapples7901
    @mrpinapples7901 Рік тому +2

    I remember the water in our gutters used to freeze over while flowing out. We’d see a stream of ice on the downspout…was always fascinated by it.

  • @colinjohnston9824
    @colinjohnston9824 5 місяців тому

    I absolutely love your videos. Your passion for science and direct delivery makes for one of, if not the best science channel on UA-cam.

    • @koopatroopa7968
      @koopatroopa7968 5 місяців тому

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  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz 3 роки тому +339

    the waterfall over the pond in my backyard flows constantly, it has gotten cold enough for the splash to freeze and build up and only once did it ever completely seal over with a crystal shell, the splash has air in it so it builds up white ice on the rocks and crystal clumps on the branches of the overhanging spruce.

    • @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
      @stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 3 роки тому +3

      Where do you live?

    • @TazCStorm
      @TazCStorm 3 роки тому +13

      That seems like it's a beautiful site to view..

    • @yashagarwal8249
      @yashagarwal8249 3 роки тому +45

      @@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 perfectly normal question to ask a stranger on the internet haha

    • @theholydemons2867
      @theholydemons2867 3 роки тому +12

      @@yashagarwal8249 Answers: I live on planet Earth 😁

    • @Speeder84XL
      @Speeder84XL 3 роки тому +13

      There is also another thing that causes moving water to not freeze very easy, that he forgot to mention - friction heating. When water goes down a slope or falls, it releases potential energy (just like any mass going down will do). That energy will end up as heat in the water as it hits more water further downstream (at the bottom of waterfalls), rocks and other stuff that slows down the flow. A stream that loses for example 0,6 m of altitude per minute, at average will also give almost 100 W per cubic meter of water that's moving at average - that's quite a lot when the energy has to be given off to air (bad conductor of heat) that's not very far below the freezing point.
      In his demo, he used liquid nitrogen (that's extremely cold and can absorb large amount of energy in a short time from the water due to it being so much colder than the freezing point and being liquid and conducts heat a lot more than gaseous nitrogen). If he had put the pump or magnetic stirrer in the freezer, it's might not have frozen at all (even if being left there for a week, haha), since the pump or stirrer heats the water enough to never get cold enough to freeze.
      In your case if you have a fontain pump - all of the power coming from the pump will end up heating the water (water it,s pumped up, it gets potential energy, that is then turned to heat at the bottom of the waterfall). That may be enough, for it to never get cold enough to freeze.

  • @TheAncientSpec
    @TheAncientSpec 3 роки тому +145

    1:55 I love how they chose the picture of him doing his signature hand signals while talking

  • @eekee6034
    @eekee6034 Рік тому

    I've long known of supercooled water, but this is the first time I've seen demonstrations. It's really great to see! :D

  • @mario_dc
    @mario_dc 2 роки тому +3

    Nature is amazing and this guy explains everything so good

  • @praneethnaidu9620
    @praneethnaidu9620 3 роки тому +498

    Real life Equivalent of-
    "Piplup use whirlpool"
    "buneary use ice beam"

  • @bradhoward9701
    @bradhoward9701 3 роки тому +401

    does everyone but me just have big old flasks of liquid nitrogen knocking about the house?

    • @HeNotHim104
      @HeNotHim104 3 роки тому +24

      Y E S

    • @milesromanus7041
      @milesromanus7041 3 роки тому +40

      Yes, lol. How do you chill during a hot summer day?

    • @doaimanariroll5121
      @doaimanariroll5121 3 роки тому +31

      You don’t have a big old flask of liquid nitrogen? Super weird, where are your from sub Saharan africa

    • @blacksquirrel4008
      @blacksquirrel4008 3 роки тому +6

      I’m surprised how cheap it is, less than gasoline.

    • @aperson1
      @aperson1 3 роки тому +20

      @@blacksquirrel4008 to be fair, you can literally get it out of thin air.

  • @RockIslandYT
    @RockIslandYT Рік тому

    i first saw your vids in high school like, many years ago. your voice is iconic, in a good way. nice vids mr action

  • @alech9418
    @alech9418 2 роки тому +1

    I went to a school with really bad winters. When it got cold enough, we would fill up small buckets with hot water and throw it up into the air to see if it froze before hitting the ground. When it did, it always made the coolest shapes before it landed.

  • @MrPrkarthikeyan
    @MrPrkarthikeyan 3 роки тому +1666

    This man looks like a younger version of Hide the pain Harold

    • @Luh_Runna
      @Luh_Runna 3 роки тому +32

      Time travel

    • @Crybaby-Media
      @Crybaby-Media 3 роки тому +39

      He does . A picture of him in the army was actually just released - or I just saw it . Lol

    • @billCosbydruggedme
      @billCosbydruggedme 2 роки тому +1

      (・o・)

    • @MrPrkarthikeyan
      @MrPrkarthikeyan 2 роки тому +11

      @Sid J that’s an old photo

    • @Luh_Runna
      @Luh_Runna 2 роки тому +14

      @@MrPrkarthikeyan orr hear me out..... Time travel

  • @sovietbot6708
    @sovietbot6708 3 роки тому +131

    As someone who lives in a very cold climate, I can confirm flowing water can freeze.

    • @caio-jl6qw
      @caio-jl6qw 3 роки тому +8

      Yes. Depending on the size of the body of water it can freeze easier or not.

    • @drgnflms7
      @drgnflms7 3 роки тому +5

      Definitely freezes over up here in MN

    • @alexandermisael5403
      @alexandermisael5403 3 роки тому +2

      As a Minnesotan I can confirm this

    • @TheMagstir
      @TheMagstir 3 роки тому +2

      People here put food colouring on frozen waterfalls

  • @albertabd3206
    @albertabd3206 2 роки тому +53

    This is very informative. Could you capture the experience with an infrared camera from different angles? It is interesting to know the temperature distribution.

    • @yellowbacon69
      @yellowbacon69 5 місяців тому +1

      This is a great idea!

    • @dirrology
      @dirrology Місяць тому

      The vapours would be an issue right

  • @metallampman
    @metallampman 2 роки тому

    some great ideas and demonstrated experiments thumbs up

  • @richm368
    @richm368 3 роки тому +511

    If I ever find a running stream where it's in the -40s, I'm going to throw a piece of ice in and hope it flash freezes.

    • @elisabethsun7059
      @elisabethsun7059 2 роки тому +6

      Lol

    • @ashtonwitham5185
      @ashtonwitham5185 2 роки тому +38

      be interested to see if it would work and how dramatic the flash could be? instant dam, or river of sloosh?

    • @stirlingshade
      @stirlingshade 2 роки тому +14

      Come to Minnesota. Might be possible, -20s are becoming quite common for us ere.

    • @JTPlaysPoorly
      @JTPlaysPoorly 2 роки тому +2

      Try North alberta canada

    • @NotUwU-_-
      @NotUwU-_- 2 роки тому +1

      Youd kill fish

  • @MiskyWilkshake
    @MiskyWilkshake 3 роки тому +1151

    Is it weird that my first thoughts upon seeing this extremely white ice is what a great cocktail ingredient it would make.
    Like, generally in cocktails we like to use differential cooling to get extremely clear ice, but if you managed to quickly cool water in a high-pressure environment of smoke, or some other aromatic, you could get lovely milky white ice-cubes which as they melt slowly incorporate another flavour into the drink, adding a really long-term evolution to a cocktail.

    • @zzz_zzz_ZZZ_zzz_ZZZ_ZZZ_Z_z-ZZ
      @zzz_zzz_ZZZ_zzz_ZZZ_ZZZ_Z_z-ZZ 2 роки тому +90

      just freeze something like tomato water juice and add it to the cocktail it ain’t that difficult eisteen

    • @TaCo0oCaT
      @TaCo0oCaT 2 роки тому +2

      @@zzz_zzz_ZZZ_zzz_ZZZ_ZZZ_Z_z-ZZ You tried and failed to sound smart. Its also spelled Einstein btw
      "Hello, bartender? I'd like a White Russian with tomato juice ice cubes"
      "Won't the tomato juice ruin the cocktail?"
      "Well aren't you trying to be smartass, Eisteen"

    • @ahorseofficial
      @ahorseofficial 2 роки тому +24

      Honestly I can see that being incredible and a very solid invention. If you have the will, I bet you can make a lot of money off of that idea

    • @Nevir202
      @Nevir202 2 роки тому +11

      Probably the hardest part of that, would be removing the regular gas, to make room for it to absorb anything else.
      So put it in a vacuum chamber to degas, already very cold, then take it out and put it into a pressure pot with something smoldering inside and pressurize it to force as much of the smoke in as possible, while bathing that pressure pot in liquid nitrogen. Not sure if the stirring helped or hurt the cause, probably hurt, so it would be better to allow it to be still.

    • @mr.beaning9792
      @mr.beaning9792 2 роки тому +13

      @@zzz_zzz_ZZZ_zzz_ZZZ_ZZZ_Z_z-ZZ einstine.. not that difficult to do a google search dude

  • @AFGautonompunk
    @AFGautonompunk 2 роки тому

    wow, that explanation about the theoretical minimum was quite interesting; thanks for sharing the knowledge!

  • @pjeffreypwong
    @pjeffreypwong Рік тому

    Always good to know more about Kuzan.

  • @tonygomez5611
    @tonygomez5611 3 роки тому +108

    My garden hose during winter: "am I a joke to you?"

  • @Thomy-xo3uw
    @Thomy-xo3uw 3 роки тому +34

    6:07 when he said thats so cool, he meant how cold it was

  • @korbanpyke5996
    @korbanpyke5996 Рік тому +73

    Freezing a water bottle has only ever done exactly that for me. It freezes, as expected. What do you change to get it supercooled?

    • @gabrielandradeferraz386
      @gabrielandradeferraz386 Рік тому +10

      first of all absolutely zero particles. you might also want as little air as possible dissolved inside your water

    • @abcdefgh5808
      @abcdefgh5808 Рік тому +8

      maybe it works better with distilled water

    • @nathanegnew1923
      @nathanegnew1923 Рік тому +24

      Step 1: use distilled water (no particles other than water)
      Step 2: let sit in the window for a day (heats up the water and causes the dissolved air to be released into the headspace [this step isn't strictly necessary] )
      Step 3: place in freezer gently so as to not incorporate air back into the water.
      Step 4: remove from freezer gently to avoid nucleation.

    • @williamsherwood5117
      @williamsherwood5117 Рік тому +6

      Bro just got all the myths at once🤣
      Just keep it just below freezing so when it touches the ice, it brings it to that freezing point. The rest is just how it works:
      Since it's colder and heat travels from warmest to coldest, it releases the heat from the water into the ice, bringing the water down to a temperature that makes it change into a solid state.
      This is because the hydrogen bonds (a weak bond) in the water between each molecule at a liquid state aren't strong enough to hold them in the hexagonal crystalline lattice they'd like to be. When energy is removed from the electrons in the hydrogen (heat is released), the attraction from the hydrogen's nucleus and it's electron +the oxygen vs the attraction between hydrogen-hydrogen (hydrogen bond) equals out, allowing it to hold that hexagonal shape and in turn creating ice. 🧊 🙂
      You might be thinking: how do two positively charged atoms attract each other? Well, a sole hydrogen atom has 1 proton, neutron and electron but wants 1 more electron to fill it's 1s orbital since the s orbital is a circle shape which needs 2 electrons to be full. If you look at the hydrogen molecule, you'll notice that it's not just a single hydrogen atom, it's H2. This is because of what I said above and that's what's happening between the two hydrogens in 2 water water molecules side-by-side.
      "How does the hydrogen's electron have an attraction to a hydrogen when it's already bound to the oxygen in it's water molecule?"
      Electrons don't live between two atoms like a Lewis diagram would show (at least in molecular bonds, ionic bonds give electrons from the cation to the anion and just sit there wishing it had them) Anyway, they share them. An orbital is called an orbital because it's an entire region that the electron can exist in. When there is as much of an attraction to the oxygen than to another hydrogen, it's going to spiral around between them as forces around it act on it.
      Just got dome my first term in biochemistry 🙂, I'm switching to forestry tho cause I actually want a job lol. Hope this helps someone 🙏

    • @trustytrest
      @trustytrest Рік тому

      @@williamsherwood5117 Forestry's a way better career.

  • @maticevanthielen7689
    @maticevanthielen7689 Рік тому

    this information was very clearly explained. thx

  • @dougfaiella4179
    @dougfaiella4179 3 роки тому +189

    True facts: -40 C is the same as -40 F, or at least that's what comes up when you punch it in a celsius to fahrenheit calculator.

    • @ChrisRobinson-hl5sz
      @ChrisRobinson-hl5sz 2 роки тому +23

      I don't know why I'm so amazed by this

    • @nalat1suket4nk0
      @nalat1suket4nk0 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah i know that

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 2 роки тому

      Yeah it is….

    • @vara202
      @vara202 2 роки тому +36

      @@ChrisRobinson-hl5sz because the degrees are different sizes there has to be a point where they meet and cross over, -40 just happens to be that point.

    • @someyetiwithinternetaccess1253
      @someyetiwithinternetaccess1253 2 роки тому +1

      @@vara202 Guys, don't tell him

  • @kpopparapakyaw678
    @kpopparapakyaw678 3 роки тому +56

    6:07 " *That's so cool* " I see what you did here

  • @moneyboy503
    @moneyboy503 2 роки тому +8

    it's always been interesting to me how it seems like every product is the "Number one" in it's category lol

    • @RuyVuusen
      @RuyVuusen 2 роки тому

      The number one product in the category of approximately 15-18 cm wide cubical plushies with white stripes and elephant pictures in them: *"Hmm, I don't know."*

    • @elisabethsun7059
      @elisabethsun7059 2 роки тому

      Lol

    • @katyungodly
      @katyungodly 2 роки тому +2

      That's legally called, "puffery", and is how restaurants can get away with saying "we have the BEST x!" without getting sued.

  • @jek__
    @jek__ Рік тому +42

    If you vibrate water supersonically could you prevent it from freezing at -48c?

    • @tultrapfighter
      @tultrapfighter Рік тому +10

      tiny vibrations are heat

    • @scottowens398
      @scottowens398 Рік тому

      @@tultrapfighter Be that as it may, the *supersonic* part denotes the use of minuscule vibrations, attempting to prevent water from freezing by vibrating and shattering the ice crystals before they can form and take hold. I personally do not believe that this would work well, as any water would theoretically dampen most vibrations. I think it would become slush.

    • @cookiesenpai1641
      @cookiesenpai1641 Рік тому

      @@scottowens398 Plus I have a feeling that you'd end up rearranging randomly the particles in a nuclear patter just like when he gave the supercooled bottle a tap at the beguinning maybe?

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 Рік тому

      depends on how hard you vibrate it

  • @toinenprofessori771
    @toinenprofessori771 3 роки тому +728

    I cannot resist quoting a Finnish saying here: “On niin kylmä, että kusi kaarelle jäätyy.” An approximate translation: “It is so cold that you’ll get a frozen bow when you pee.”

  • @GpD79
    @GpD79 3 роки тому +170

    I knew the answer to this since I was a kid. Anyone who's ever lived up north would likely have too. As a kid, there was this dammed up pond that was along my bus route to school. The dam produced a decent sized waterfall from the water spilling over the top of it. When the winters would come, the waterfall would freeze up. I remember marveling at the suspended animation of the waterfall as a kid. It was pretty cool!

    • @andreipatrat9601
      @andreipatrat9601 Рік тому

      Wow, cool

    • @antarbenson9328
      @antarbenson9328 Рік тому +5

      Yeah, the Detroit River freezes over every year. Not completely obviously, but it has a very thick ice shield.

    • @cupricwheat
      @cupricwheat Рік тому +4

      Bro experienced Fimbulwinter 💀

    • @jek__
      @jek__ Рік тому +3

      I wonder how that happens. Does the ice crystal rapidly spread through the fall, or does it start at the bottom and slowly build up as more water hits it?

    • @antarbenson9328
      @antarbenson9328 Рік тому +3

      Water freezes at the top first, but more specifically the edges. In moving water, it starts as small chunks of frozen water that freeze faster than it melts. These chunks eventually collide with other chunks and the water between freezes and fuses. Like the rapid freezing phenomenon, the ice itself becomes the nucleation point. When a solid sheet is eventually formed it thickens from the water below. The funny thing is with the wind unable to take energy from the water to aid in evaporation the water beneath the ice shield still moves at its normal current. With waterfalls in particular its similar to icicles growing in which water runs along a frozen surface and cools enough to add a thin layer of ice around it.
      I assume since the warmer water is the faster it freezes due to releasing its energy at a faster pace, and with warmer water being closer to the surface, this causes it to freeze there first but that's only a hypothesis of mine and to which anyone who knows better can refute and correct me if I'm wrong.

  • @razombahato
    @razombahato 2 роки тому

    Great episode!

  • @Nofxthepirate
    @Nofxthepirate 2 роки тому +9

    One of the coolest things I learned in physics class was that a substance only increases in temperature between phase changes. Once a phase change "wall" has been reached, the entire substance has to change phase before it can begin increasing in temperature again. It's intuitive, but at the same time, totally insane!

    • @heliomance760
      @heliomance760 5 місяців тому

      eeehhhhh... yes and no. It depends how good a thermal conductor it is, and how well it's being mixed. Artic ice caps don't prevent the sea from being warm at the equator, even though that's a connected body of water. Similarly, if you have a beaker of ice water and you heat it strongly enough, the water will start boiling before all the ice has melted, because the heat doesn't instantaneously transfer through all the water.

    • @Nofxthepirate
      @Nofxthepirate 5 місяців тому

      @@heliomance760 That's different than what I'm talking about. All the water in the ocean is in the liquid state, so it can all be different temperatures in different places. If the ocean was boiling then no part of it would be over the boiling temperature. But the ice caps would still be ice gracious that's a different state. They could melt but you wouldn't ever take a temperature reading from an ice cap that was higher than the melting point of ice. Similarly, if you had ice water and it started boiling, the water still wouldn't go over boiling temperature, and the ice wouldn't go above freezing temperature because all of the energy is going into the phase change instead of raising the temperature more.

  • @eathamgamer
    @eathamgamer 3 роки тому +85

    *Me who knows that the earth moves, so that means that water that is frozen is moving*

    • @lordcat2857
      @lordcat2857 3 роки тому +1

      lol

    • @Enderia2
      @Enderia2 3 роки тому +13

      Me who knows atoms move unless its 0 kelvin

    • @samuelwiley8736
      @samuelwiley8736 3 роки тому +2

      @@Enderia2 me who knows that zero kelvin is impossible to reach except for black holes

    • @yuhperiodt
      @yuhperiodt 3 роки тому +4

      @@samuelwiley8736 me who lives in a black hole

    • @keb_in
      @keb_in 3 роки тому +3

      @@yuhperiodt me who is a black hole

  • @JakeBiddlecome
    @JakeBiddlecome 3 роки тому +27

    This guy has an uncanny ability to come up with uniquely cool experiments that I don't see anywhere else. This one and the black flame video are some of the coolest experiments on YT.

  • @jeramiecooper1913
    @jeramiecooper1913 Рік тому

    I designed a water weep system for a car wash system years ago. This idea was presented, however in test, I concluded the time to freeze is a function of input / ground water temp, heat transfer rate through a tube, and time in which the water is exposed to that heat transfer rate. Another factor I didn't consider is the change the in coefficient of friction at the boundary layer when a thin film of ice forms on the ID of the tube. I haven't looked at this carwash system in years, so I don't know if that weep system is still in production.

  • @comedyradijs1069
    @comedyradijs1069 2 роки тому

    Love this content! Simple

  • @yajjatiyer4879
    @yajjatiyer4879 3 роки тому +62

    Imagine if The Action Lab and Mark Rober did a collab , it would be the best day of my life

    • @t_rex1299
      @t_rex1299 3 роки тому +3

      IKR

    • @StrikeEagIe
      @StrikeEagIe 3 роки тому +3

      What about NileRed?

    • @yajjatiyer4879
      @yajjatiyer4879 3 роки тому +2

      @@StrikeEagIe Well at the time I wrote this I didnt know about him

    • @StrikeEagIe
      @StrikeEagIe 3 роки тому +1

      @@yajjatiyer4879 just asking

    • @Coyote0874
      @Coyote0874 2 роки тому +7

      Action lab, Mark Rober, SmarterEveryday, Nilered, Codyslab, Electroboom, Plasma Channel, Veritasium, Vsauce and Kurzgezagt collab

  • @Andriuxas9
    @Andriuxas9 3 роки тому +80

    I grew up by the river. It always used to freeze during the winter. I think it really depends on the speed of the water in motion. That river was flowing rather slowly. But at the same time, the stream, which was flowing through my garden to the said river would never freeze, as it was flowing way faster :)

    • @BooBaddyBig
      @BooBaddyBig Рік тому +2

      The high speed thins the boundary layer. The thicker the boundary layer the more it acts as an insulator and that increases the rate of freezing. That's because it allows ice to form, and once any ice has formed, it conducts heat much better than water so a thicker boundary layer increases the speed of freezing (this is basically the opposite of what normally happens as a boundary layer slows heat flow and heat has to leave to make ice.)

    • @chimmichurri6940
      @chimmichurri6940 5 місяців тому +1

      seen this happen to. TBH after watching this video it makes more sens why a "waterfall" could be assumed as frozen over. Ive seen a sheer ice wall over the top of a fall, but theres still water pouriong down. Think the upper most layer like mist off the stream is the only thing able to freeze and as the fall falls, the water makes the mist thatd stick to the already made ice. im not a scientist though :B

  • @graaaby
    @graaaby Рік тому +7

    i wonder if u put some oil on top and had a stirrer go fast so it would get mixed real good and then freeze it?

  • @mangoleafs
    @mangoleafs 2 роки тому +17

    "nucleation point" that sounds so cool for literally freezing water

  • @elsfane
    @elsfane 3 роки тому +73

    I’ve seen footage of Niagara Falls partially frozen over.

    • @clarkbrowngaming350
      @clarkbrowngaming350 3 роки тому

      Woah really send link

    • @julius855
      @julius855 3 роки тому +3

      @@clarkbrowngaming350 just look it up on google

    • @aarkaarkangel
      @aarkaarkangel 3 роки тому +1

      Yes, but did you see the picture of the guy whose canoe he was paddling was saved by the ice. At the moments of being swept over the edge the water froze, holding him in safe place at a 45 degree angle pointing down.
      A Army helicopter was called but the warming downdraft of the rotor blades unfroze the canoe and....
      The Army were embarrassed by the avoidable death and hushed the whole thing up, obviously.
      I used to take a lot of LSD but I was there and saw it. The photo has gone "missing" so that proves my story and the cover up that followed.

    • @julius855
      @julius855 3 роки тому

      @@aarkaarkangel
      I want whatever LSD your on mate

    • @aarkaarkangel
      @aarkaarkangel 3 роки тому

      @@julius855 I would send you some but it froze solid and I destroyed it by heat by over enthusiasticly warming it up.
      There's a lot of "ICE" about rurally in USA, all year round too - that tweeks the brain quite effectively without fail I understand.
      It might take a few years to wear off though if you choose that route and your neighbours will not likely be kindly to you during that period.

  • @williamlau7247
    @williamlau7247 3 роки тому +35

    I thought he was going to say "I would like to thank Private internet access for this phenomenon" lol

  • @check4twenty
    @check4twenty 2 роки тому +1

    I think also, one reason rivers are hard to freeze is that the bed/water table under the river is insulated by the water itself, so the water gets “warmed” or holds heat from underneath. I figure this is why the top of a river might freeze from exposure, but underneath the frozen layer, still flows.

  • @aaronoliver1532
    @aaronoliver1532 2 роки тому +3

    Curious question for you, love to see a video on it. Does water require a higher temperature to boil or a lower temperature to freeze under pressure? I've seen your boiling point of water in a vacuum and wonder if the opposite is true under say 10 or 20 or even 100 x atmosphere's?

  • @kunwar4709
    @kunwar4709 3 роки тому +62

    I'm just gonna put out my thinking why flowing water doesn't freeze that easily before watching this video. So i think because in flowing water it's molecules are moving and colliding with each other so there is some thermal energy in them compared to still water (i think that's why lakes freeze easily than rivers)

    • @clydeanddodo1
      @clydeanddodo1 3 роки тому

      Interesting I didnt know that you learn something everyday

    • @jebvehxu566
      @jebvehxu566 3 роки тому +3

      That some smart thinking!

    • @flametorcher7701
      @flametorcher7701 3 роки тому +6

      I thought this was common sense in the science world lol

    • @smbfelix9470
      @smbfelix9470 3 роки тому +1

      Was my thought aswell. The river flows even in subzero, because the molecules are moving around. I guess even middleschool kids know that water freezes when the particles are to slow to move around. And you do experiments where you steer water fast and see that it's heating up.

    • @deepikasharma8078
      @deepikasharma8078 3 роки тому

      But there are several cases in which a waterfall freezes in the air
      itself.

  • @yangvolcanos
    @yangvolcanos 3 роки тому +36

    the moment i noticed how often you blinked your eyes, i couldn't 'un-notice' it :')

  • @kyranmcknight-woods1284
    @kyranmcknight-woods1284 2 роки тому

    I live in saskatoon which is a city in the middle of Canada, there's a river flowing right through the middle of the city and it gets very cold here most winter days are around -25°C and the river freezes over halfway and is thick enough to walk on it about 10 feet of the shore

  • @cablevamp3163
    @cablevamp3163 Рік тому

    Man channels like this and Joe Scott are what I missed out in school

  • @larryroyovitz7829
    @larryroyovitz7829 3 роки тому +28

    Rivers stop flowing and freeze in my neck of the woods in Canada.

  • @meh11235
    @meh11235 3 роки тому +8

    Freeze a magnet..... You'll see the vortex bands within the water. Awesome video!
    Experiment: (Stationary, coin shaped magnet supported within the center of a cup of water)

  • @valetv2208
    @valetv2208 2 роки тому

    It never ceases to blow my mind how smart you are.

  • @syedbasiljaved6201
    @syedbasiljaved6201 5 місяців тому

    When I used to live in Klaipeda (Lithuania) like 3 years ago I saw kilometres/miles of the entire river freeze. Quite a wide river (could probably fit many large boats side by side). It was around -30 degrees those days. I even walked on the frozen river.

  • @inderkhalsa2848
    @inderkhalsa2848 3 роки тому +80

    This dude has a really wholesome vibe to him for some reason🙂

    • @I_Hat123
      @I_Hat123 2 роки тому +4

      Yea, That just how he is.

  • @FoundaPeanut
    @FoundaPeanut 3 роки тому +373

    Why does his face look like he’s trying to hide severe pain.

    • @SrJrXVIII
      @SrJrXVIII 3 роки тому +89

      Shhh. He's just trying not to blink horizontal.

    • @psychedelicowl3275
      @psychedelicowl3275 3 роки тому +12

      @@SrJrXVIII Delicious

    • @matthewmcwane9569
      @matthewmcwane9569 3 роки тому +36

      He has too much knowledge that he has to hold back

    • @josh3003
      @josh3003 3 роки тому +6

      @@SrJrXVIII He blinks vertical instead

    • @brokentombot
      @brokentombot 3 роки тому +22

      He's probably smuggling gold bars in his ass. He made the video before he boarded his flight from India to the U.S.

  • @zepinephrine
    @zepinephrine Рік тому

    i love your videos. You Rock!

  • @zorro2757
    @zorro2757 2 роки тому +36

    I have seen a frozen waterfall near my home in 2010.
    We had like -15°C for weeks in middle Germany.
    I think that freezing falling water is harder than freezing flowing water.

    • @multiarray2320
      @multiarray2320 2 роки тому +8

      frozen waterfall works different tho. it doesnt instantly freeze but it slowly drops down ans freezes. its like stalaktiten.

    • @zorro2757
      @zorro2757 2 роки тому

      @@multiarray2320 I know, it just needs to be very cold for a longer time

    • @multiarray2320
      @multiarray2320 2 роки тому +1

      @@zorro2757 richtig

  • @MrSaid197
    @MrSaid197 3 роки тому +30

    Next: will liquified gallium harden at hardening temperature if its flowing

  • @BanannaManO7
    @BanannaManO7 3 роки тому +34

    Imagine freezing hurricanes before they approach the shore

    • @crowsage5824
      @crowsage5824 3 роки тому +3

      That's how you make a snow storm

    • @Claricio
      @Claricio 3 роки тому +1

      Lol yeah a hurricane is a storm not a giant whirlpool of water

    • @abirbhattacharji9345
      @abirbhattacharji9345 3 роки тому +1

      U gud bro?

  • @astroid-ws4py
    @astroid-ws4py 2 роки тому

    Cool video, Thanks .

  • @mueckenhoeffer
    @mueckenhoeffer Рік тому

    I enjoyed this one as all of your videos.
    Could you make a video on handling liquid nitrogen? You seem to handle it in a very casual manner, but it seems like it could be a very dangerous thing.

  • @thefifthaceassociation
    @thefifthaceassociation 2 роки тому +14

    with your knowledge in science paired with your curiosity, i bet you could create a great SCP story.

  • @lorriecarrel9962
    @lorriecarrel9962 3 роки тому +5

    We learn sooo much from your content,thank you

  • @turkeyssr
    @turkeyssr 2 роки тому +2

    Can you coat the sides of the cup with something hydrophobic? What impact would that have? Great video.

  • @anyajalal7665
    @anyajalal7665 2 роки тому

    Dude you are so smart that you make it look like it is easy

  • @BNSF1238
    @BNSF1238 3 роки тому +13

    "Hey everyone, today we're going to if it's possible to freeze-"
    *Video buffers*

  • @ziggystardust2435
    @ziggystardust2435 3 роки тому +89

    did everyone forget that water falls get frozen all the time lmao

    • @jpe1
      @jpe1 3 роки тому +5

      @Leone Okello not sure what you mean by “not the same way” but here is a cool video of a waterfall near me that freezes some winters, and people climbing it. ua-cam.com/video/IwefKmdq-RE/v-deo.html

    • @thomaszhang5437
      @thomaszhang5437 3 роки тому +4

      @@jpe1 im guessing he means that it freezes in the same way an icicle forms

    • @daikon3199
      @daikon3199 3 роки тому

      Or throwing coffee in winter times and it freezes into gas....

    • @gokaytaspnar1355
      @gokaytaspnar1355 3 роки тому

      MacGyver

    • @wholegroinbread593
      @wholegroinbread593 3 роки тому

      @Ramón I'm guessing that he is referring to how the hot coffee instantly freezes(mpemba effect), and due to it being poured out and spread out, freezes into patches of white-ish ice crystals and look as if it has instead been boiled and turned into steam

  • @johnedwards3621
    @johnedwards3621 Рік тому

    Very nice experimental presentation. The way Scientific American used to be 60 years ago, as I recall.
    A few useful points - minus 40 degrees happens to be the same for Centigrade or Farenheit. It's where both scales cross when plotted on a graph.
    Also -- Water freezes at 0 C degrees, but its greatest density is at +4 C.
    This means the surface won't freeze if the water is mixed vertically on a large body of water.
    That's why you can find ice-free water around boats tied to a dock on a frozen lake.
    Submerged pumps beneath the boats bathe hulls with warmer, but denser, water at the bottom.
    There's also a safety concern with significant consequences.
    It happened a few years ago on a popular northern lake.
    The fresh water surface was very still, when a sudden cold "snap" occurred.
    The surface water was flash frozen before the warmer water below got a chance to sink -- passing through its greatest density (4C).
    while establishing a gradient density to support the ice above.
    Eager ice-fishing enticed people to drive on the ice because of its morning thickness.
    They found their vehicles drowned when ice warmed from beneath increased density and sank to the bottom -- like their vehicles.
    It takes time for the ice to build.
    Similar situations arise from hidden springs. or the water flowing beneath the ice on a river.
    I wonder what those fishermen would have found had they put a thermocouple on the end of a pole and lowered it gradually through a hole in the ice.

  • @LucasDarkGiygas
    @LucasDarkGiygas Рік тому

    thanks for the video

  • @Versedbug
    @Versedbug 3 роки тому +23

    How does this man have an answer to every question I’ve ever had 😭 love the videos!

  • @tubarimies4127
    @tubarimies4127 3 роки тому +23

    this guy is like michael and toby combined from The Office

  • @xanthoconite4904
    @xanthoconite4904 2 роки тому

    Where I live the winters get so cold that even the fast-moving water in the rivers will freeze completely, you can see the ice is even super wavy (although there is still moving water beneath the surface of the ice).

  • @sriharshacv7760
    @sriharshacv7760 2 роки тому

    Totally worth subscribing to.

  • @MemesSpaghetti
    @MemesSpaghetti 3 роки тому +17

    There’s a waterfall near where I live, and most winters it freezes solid. It looks so pretty

  • @Bluelightbandit
    @Bluelightbandit 3 роки тому +49

    Skip to 02:15 Unless you're in the market for VPN

    • @atharvakilche
      @atharvakilche 3 роки тому +5

      Thanks bro u saved my 30 secs.huge respect

    • @yyuukiko
      @yyuukiko 3 роки тому +7

      @@meanodustino9563 literally takes less than 3 seconds to skip but okay lol, complain about companies making this free content possible for you and sustainable for youtubers

  • @benwilson5893
    @benwilson5893 2 роки тому

    Pretty much all my rivers and creeks freeze over. And some freeze solid. It is actually strange to find open water in middle of winter. Those places are usually hot springs or sulfur vents. But I live in Alaska.

  • @interestin9720
    @interestin9720 Рік тому

    Hum interesting makes me remember back when I was a little kid in Montana we set a water sprinkler up during the winter. When we had negative Temps the ice structures that made where really amazing.

  • @SahilKhan-ly5qx
    @SahilKhan-ly5qx 3 роки тому +6

    I didn't have the doubt but I appreciate the one's who had this doubt. Good job guys 👍🏼. And thanks for making it this easy to understand ❤️.

  • @brandonkemenymusic
    @brandonkemenymusic 3 роки тому +5

    The algorithm recommended three of your videos today sir and for have earned my subscription

  • @FW190D9
    @FW190D9 2 роки тому

    I work for an ice company, this is how we create perfectly clear ice for ice sculptures. Great Video