Why cant alcohol freeze?!


Question: Alcohol can freeze, it's freezing point is -114 degrees C. Water's freezing point is 0 degrees C. The higher the alcohol content, the lower the freezing point. Generally, your average household freezer doesn't reach temperatures low enough to freeze anything over about 40% ABV.


Answers: Alcohol can freeze, it's freezing point is -114 degrees C. Water's freezing point is 0 degrees C. The higher the alcohol content, the lower the freezing point. Generally, your average household freezer doesn't reach temperatures low enough to freeze anything over about 40% ABV.

It can. It just freezes at a much lower temperature than water, and a lower temperature than your freezer.

it can, but when it's mixed with water and other stuff (like in alcoholic drinks), the freezing point of the mixture is decreased. it's a chemistry thing. the alcohol is miscible with the other liquids in solution, so their partial pressures are additive, therefore the partial pressure of the beverage is greater than either alcohol or water alone. this means that it requires a lower temperature to freeze the drink, and freezers are not set at such low temperatures.

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I put a brand new bottle of Malibu Rum in my freezer for Thanksgiving, and when I took it out to make drinks, it was frozen solid! CRAZY!!! I thought it couldn't freeze as well. I knew that beer could, but not the harder stuff. oops!

Alcohol will freeze. If you put a beer in the freezer for a couple of hours, it will freeze. Hard liquor, on the other hand, will freeze at about -40°. So it will freeze eventually, but there is no possible way for anyone to freeze hard liquor in your home freezer.

That's why antifreeze has alcohol.

It does freeze at a higher freezing point..I think is -40 degrees.

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