Re: Super Cold Beer!

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 08:43 6/29/99 -0400, Chuck Britton wrote:

> I clearly remember a certain bottle of beer that I once put into the
> refrigerator freezer to chill quickly. Needless to say I forgot it
> until the next day. The beer was still liquid when I took it from the
> freezer and stayed liquid when I popped the cap. I took a swig and
> looked down into the neck clearly saw a tiny spot of frost form on
> the liquid/air interface. As I watched (seemed like a few seconds)
> the spot grew and soon the entire bottle of beer was frozen into a
> 'slushy'!

> Chuck Britton

This observation sums up the functional purpose of antifreeze.
Where a glass bottle will readily crack when it develops a collar
of ice, water with antifreeze changes state (eventually) to slush
which is very much less injurious.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK