2006-07-15 15:40:04 · 18 answers · asked by genn2003 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Many of the answers here are wrong. I'll tell you the real, provable, scientific explanation based on the laws of thermodynamics, but in lay person terms.
Alcohol will not freeze in your ordinary freezer, but all substances freeze at some temperature. It depends on the substance.
Few people realize this. You know a bar of iron at room temperature is actually FROZEN iron. If you heat iron to hundreds of degrees, then it melts and becomes liquid, and if you heat it more to thousands of degrees, iron evaporates and becomes a gas. This is true of ALL substances, including alcohol. The reason why this doesn't seem right to most people is that humans only experience a very narrow band of temperatures between -50F and 120F or so. Virtually all metals are frozen in this temperature range.
The exact freezing point of alcohol (pure) is -174 F, which is colder than any human will ever experience unless they are trying to break a world record or something. Of course, not many people have bottles of pure alcohol lying around. If you are talking a bottle of vodka, I'm sure the freezing point is much higher, but still much lower than a freezer's capacity.
2006-07-15 15:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by duffman071 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course it can. All things freeze. Somethings don't freeze until the get close to absolute zero, but all things freeze.
Ethanol, the drinkable alcohol sometimes called grain alcohol, freezes at about -114.1C which is about -173.4F. That's so darned cold that it rarely occurs on Earth and definitely will not occur in your kitchen freezer.
2006-07-15 15:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Knowledge Seeker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it most definately will freeze if you lower the temperature far enough - look up the freezing point online - all liquids will become solids at a low enough temperature.
Pure alcohol or even vodka (40% alcohol) will not freeze in a normal commercial/house freezer
2006-07-15 15:48:47 · answer #3 · answered by SacBrian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most liquors over 15 proof won't. However beer and wine will. So if you have a beer can in the freeze don't forget to set a timer.
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2006-07-15 15:43:05 · answer #4 · answered by Sara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course alcohol can freeze! Alcohol is made up mostly of ethanol which has a freezing point of −114.3 °C or -172.7 °F
2006-07-15 15:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by sft2hrdtco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only thing that can freeze in alcohol is the water content that might be in it.
2006-07-15 15:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the content. beer freezes. whiskeys, liquors, Brandy's, etc..... will NOT freeze.
2006-07-15 18:38:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. if it freezes it has to form a solid. and alcohol never forms a solid
2006-07-15 15:42:17 · answer #8 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the quality! Good,NO Poor,YES!!
2006-07-15 15:43:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never had a bottle of booze frezze yet........ in 20 + years
2006-07-15 16:37:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋