Science, Microscopy, Micro-Biology
and Engineering
Sam
Hot Ice Experiment.
01/05/09
Hot Ice Proposition:
The hot ice *should* freeze at room temperature as it is not very tolerant to heat
3 stages of the experiment:
1. Put water into the beaker which is over a Bunsen burner to hear it. While warming the water, we put it the hot ice chemicals and stirred for around 15 minutes.
2. We are slowly cooling the solution as Dad had tried to put the solution in the fridge to make it cool faster but it didn't work.
3. Fail: we have over saturated the solution making it unable to freeze as its to thick! How ever, some parts have frozen.
Some information about
(Hot Ice)
It "freezes" at 54 degrees C, but it is happy to exist as a liquid at a much lower temperatures and is extremely stable. Touching it however, has the ability to force a few molecules to change to the solid state, and the rest of the liquid then rushes to solidify as well. The temperature of the solidifying liquid jumps up to 54 degrees C in the process.