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Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger
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?