Why is it some alcohol doesn't freeze?!
Why is it that Vodka, Jagermeister ect!.!.!.!. have a much lower freezing point than some other drinks!? i was told the general rule was that if it was over 40% strong it wouldn't freeze, but i know that is incorrect, because for a start Jagermeister is 35% :) and whisky over 40% freezes!.
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Answers:
The phenomenon is called freezing point depression, it's generally introduced in a second semester of general chemistry!.
Anyways, the ethanol (alcohol) has a freezing point of -114C, whereas the water has a freezing point of 0C!. So, for a 35% ABV you consider it as 65% water, so you are lowering the freezing point of the water!. This is approximately linear in the concentration of alcohol!. So, there's a significant decrease in freezing point when you are talking about spirits!. The lower proof alcohols - beer, wine, don't have enough alcohol in there to lower the freezing point below the freezer's temperature!.
BTW, freezers aren't even!. You could always get a cold spot or warm spot in there which might keep wine liquid or freeze something that usually doesn't freeze!. It also depends on how full the freezer is!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Anyways, the ethanol (alcohol) has a freezing point of -114C, whereas the water has a freezing point of 0C!. So, for a 35% ABV you consider it as 65% water, so you are lowering the freezing point of the water!. This is approximately linear in the concentration of alcohol!. So, there's a significant decrease in freezing point when you are talking about spirits!. The lower proof alcohols - beer, wine, don't have enough alcohol in there to lower the freezing point below the freezer's temperature!.
BTW, freezers aren't even!. You could always get a cold spot or warm spot in there which might keep wine liquid or freeze something that usually doesn't freeze!. It also depends on how full the freezer is!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The reason certain brands of hard alcohol don't freeze is that alcohol itself (the 40% part of whatever you are drinking) has a lower freezing point than what you normally put in your freezer!. You technically could freeze a bottle of vodka, it would just take a LOT more energy to do it!.
Beer will freeze, so will wine and lower proof hard alcohols (like Malibu for instance) and the reason these can freeze is that although the freezing point is lower than just pure water, there is still little enough alcohol in the beer or wine that your freezer can do the job!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Beer will freeze, so will wine and lower proof hard alcohols (like Malibu for instance) and the reason these can freeze is that although the freezing point is lower than just pure water, there is still little enough alcohol in the beer or wine that your freezer can do the job!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The kind of alcohol that people can drink is called ethanol and it has a freezing point of -114 degrees celcius (-114 °C)!.
Mixed with water and other flavourings in drinks the overall freezing point approaches 0 degrees C but the calculation of vrious proofs freezing pint is complicated by the flavours etc!.
37!.5 proof gin will just about freeze in a domestic freezer if put close to the bottom and then put in frozen glass!. Even then it is not solid, just very thick!. Put in very cold tonis and it thickens up a bit more but this seems to be just ice crystals not the gin itself!. Think I will need to coniteu teh epxrimenst mortorwo! ByeWww@FoodAQ@Com
Mixed with water and other flavourings in drinks the overall freezing point approaches 0 degrees C but the calculation of vrious proofs freezing pint is complicated by the flavours etc!.
37!.5 proof gin will just about freeze in a domestic freezer if put close to the bottom and then put in frozen glass!. Even then it is not solid, just very thick!. Put in very cold tonis and it thickens up a bit more but this seems to be just ice crystals not the gin itself!. Think I will need to coniteu teh epxrimenst mortorwo! ByeWww@FoodAQ@Com
Some don't freeze because it all depends on what the alcohol is mixed with!.
The drink isn't 100% alcohol so it must be mixed with some other flavoured liquid and that liquid can have either a high freezing point or a low freezing point which can make the alcohol freeze fasterWww@FoodAQ@Com
The drink isn't 100% alcohol so it must be mixed with some other flavoured liquid and that liquid can have either a high freezing point or a low freezing point which can make the alcohol freeze fasterWww@FoodAQ@Com
Alcohol has a very low freezing point!. Therefore strong spirits will not freeze in a domestic(-18) freezer!.
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Note:Proof is double that of vol!. ie 80 proof is 40%volWww@FoodAQ@Com
http://cocktails!.about!.com/od/mixology/f!.!.!.
Note:Proof is double that of vol!. ie 80 proof is 40%volWww@FoodAQ@Com
All liquids freeze at some point, alcohol freezes below 0c - the freezing point of water!.
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I thought they all did freeze!?!? if left long enoughWww@FoodAQ@Com
I stuck a bottle of dry martini in a freezer once it cam out slushy but it was fab to drink! Knocked my sox off!Www@FoodAQ@Com