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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: very cold beer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.002312.26541@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:23:12 GMT
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- mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian) writes:
- :
- : Why does the WHOLE beer freeze solid? If the beer is only, say, 20 deg F
- : below freezing, how can it absorb all the heat from the freezing ice? To
- : rephrase, a beer-sized block of ice would drop a beer-sized glass
- : of water a lot more than 20 deg F before melting. Shouldn't the inverse
- : apply here?
-
- I don't think you can really call it a temperature change. It is simply
- a state change - from supercooled liquid to ice - both having the same
- specific heat.
-
- Bill
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