Why doesn't alcohol freeze .?!
Why doesn't alcohol freeze .?
Like rum or tequlia or whiskey. I love it ice cold ,but ive always wondered why it doesnt freeze.
Answers: Alcohol will freeze, but only at extremely low temperatures. Water’s freezing point is 0 degrees Celcius, but the freezing point of ethanol (the alcohol you’re talking about) is -114 degrees Celsius. Ultra-low temperature freezers (which are the coldest you can buy) have temperatures between -50 and -90 degrees Celcius. Your freezer at home most likely has temperatures around -10 degrees Celcius. All these temperatures are too warm for pure alcohol to freeze. That’s why you can put alcohol in your freezer and it won’t freeze. it does freeze but the temparature in your freezer is not cold enough alcohol freezed at aproxamatly -400degrese celcius
at that point ibecomes jelly a very thick jelly It does. You just have to get it much colder than your home freezer is capable of. -117.3oC to be exact. Pure ethyl alcohol freezes at -173F.
Your refrigerator freezer probably only gets to about 20 F, and your deep freeze only goes to about 0. The ice cream case in the supermarket goes to -20F.
Plop a bottle of run, tequila, or whiskey in a dewar with some liquid oxygen, though, and it'll freeze solid.