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Old 01-26-2008, 12:35 AM
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Default Re: A Question For The Lone Ranger

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But if you can purify water sufficiently and keep it still, even at temperatures of -20˚ to -30˚ C, water molecules will collide with each other and stick together too infrequently for ice crystals to form, and so it won’t freeze. But even a slight disturbance – say, shaking the container or dropping in a single crystal that can act as a condensation nucleus will cause the entire mass of water to freeze almost instantly.

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Cool! (no pun intended)

Does the same thing apply to heating a liquid?
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