But the reason the waiter was saying is the correct one, there are even some vids on Youtube of bottles of -0C water being tapped lightly, causing them to freeze. They’re really cool.
If you have ever measured the temperature of melting ice, you would have noticed that the temperature keeps rising till it reaches 0 degree C, when the temperature remains stable and the ice starts melting. Only when all the ice has melted does the temperature rise again. It needs some heat energy to go from ice at 0 degree C to water at 0 degree C. This energy is called the latent heat of fusion. See, much more simple, and without involving nucleation points 😀
I believe a more likely reason concerns latent heat of freezing and all that jazz, but this explaination is cooler (pun totally intended)
“Just gimme the damn drink.”
I lol’ed. Science wise, it’s the same reason why you can superheat water in a microwave, right?
Wow, that’s an awesome comic. Seriously.
AMT! Episode 92, I asked this question and couple of others!
Nice one, Luke, this’s my favorite comic yet.
Also I was at AMT! 100 too. It was awesome
Nice one Luke!
I was kinda expecting brain freeze at the end…
@Laurence From York Wow! An AMT fan! And you do know I wrote this cartoon as a response to your question?! ( http://answermethis.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/supercool/ ). Those of you who do not know what we’re talking about, chech out out the Answer Me This podcast.
Well in that case I’m going to assume that the guy in this comic is an artist’s interpritation of me and the waiter is a young Martin the Soundman.
I just have to say…
Nice word-balloon wrap around the customer’s head!
Erm, wouldn’t the drinks be impure though?
Perhaps the colligative properties present due to the sugars in the solution would actually be a more practical?
They could be ice-cold flavoured water.
But the reason the waiter was saying is the correct one, there are even some vids on Youtube of bottles of -0C water being tapped lightly, causing them to freeze. They’re really cool.
Never seen that effect with the word balloon… The customer got “wrapped-up” by the conversation…
Really cool!
+1 to “great wrap around with the speech balloon.”
+2
How much of the customer’s time did he waste writing down thermodynamics equations? The nerve of some people!
If you have ever measured the temperature of melting ice, you would have noticed that the temperature keeps rising till it reaches 0 degree C, when the temperature remains stable and the ice starts melting. Only when all the ice has melted does the temperature rise again. It needs some heat energy to go from ice at 0 degree C to water at 0 degree C. This energy is called the latent heat of fusion. See, much more simple, and without involving nucleation points 😀