{"id":13766,"date":"2013-06-13T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2013-06-13T03:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T08:00:02","slug":"thats-a-cold-shot-babe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13766","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;s a Cold Shot, Babe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/how-to-freeze-water-in-about-half-a-second-512869494\">How to freeze water in about half a second<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an example of supercooling \u2013 the process by which a very pure liquid is chilled to a temperature just below its usual freezing point without actually making the jump to its solid state. Bottled water is perfect for this, especially the kind that&#8217;s been purified via reverse osmosis, a process that strips water of all its particulates. This particulates can act as &#8220;seed crystals,&#8221; or &#8220;nuclei,&#8221; to which a liquid phase on the cusp of becoming solid can attach, and crystalize around. In this video, a seed crystal is introduced in the form of a cube of already-frozen water. As soon as it&#8217;s introduced, the liquid phase rapidly crystallizes and attaches to the solid one, kicking off a chain reaction of ice-formation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll have to agree that this is pretty frikkin&#8217; awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to freeze water in about half a second This is an example of supercooling \u2013 the process by which a very pure liquid is chilled to a temperature just below its usual freezing point without actually making the jump &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}