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Don't worry, this one isn't based on the real life of a certain master's-degree holding webcartoonist you might know - as *if* there were any table waiting jobs in this economy
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Chapter: Comics
└ Tags: chemistry, Science

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Discussion (16) ¬

  1. Luke
    July 19, 2009, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    I believe a more likely reason concerns latent heat of freezing and all that jazz, but this explaination is cooler (pun totally intended)

  2. danineteen
    July 29, 2009, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    “Just gimme the damn drink.”

  3. Evan
    July 29, 2009, 4:11 am | # | Reply

    I lol’ed. Science wise, it’s the same reason why you can superheat water in a microwave, right?

  4. Tony
    July 29, 2009, 7:58 am | # | Reply

    Wow, that’s an awesome comic. Seriously.

  5. Laurence From York
    July 29, 2009, 10:15 am | # | Reply

    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

  6. Trevory
    July 29, 2009, 10:28 am | # | Reply

    Nice one Luke!
    I was kinda expecting brain freeze at the end…

  7. Luke
    July 29, 2009, 11:35 am | # | Reply

    @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.

    • Laurence from York
      September 15, 2009, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

      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.

  8. Chris
    July 29, 2009, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

    I just have to say…

    Nice word-balloon wrap around the customer’s head!

  9. Danno
    July 30, 2009, 5:02 am | # | Reply

    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?

  10. MrGBH
    July 30, 2009, 4:28 pm | # | Reply

    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.

  11. Nef
    August 7, 2009, 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    Never seen that effect with the word balloon… The customer got “wrapped-up” by the conversation…

    Really cool!

  12. Chris
    October 25, 2009, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    +1 to “great wrap around with the speech balloon.”

    • Fatman
      February 26, 2010, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      +2

  13. tuco
    March 23, 2010, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    How much of the customer’s time did he waste writing down thermodynamics equations? The nerve of some people!

  14. shubhorup
    June 19, 2010, 7:59 am | # | Reply

    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 😀

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