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2006-10-19 11:59:23 · 6 answers · asked by Need Help 2 in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

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I think you spelled it wrong.

2006-10-19 12:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by sumrtanman 5 · 0 0

Do you mean water containing nitrous oxide, or something else?

If you mean using nitrous oxide to freeze water, then yeah, you can use anything to freeze anything else, in principle. You just need to find a way to make one of the chemicals absorb heat from the other. In the case of nitrous oxide, you could pressurize the gas, and then expand it rapidly. This expansion is endothermic, and if done in an aqueous medium quickly and long enough, it should eventually remove enough heat from the water to freeze it.

2006-10-19 19:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by sleeptablets 2 · 0 0

You pose an interesting question. I believe that it could be done. The nitros oxide would have to be cooled and condensed to the point that it was liquid. You would have to keep the water and nos seperate, so I believe that a rig with some copper tubing would be needed. If you could submerge liquid nos into a container of water, the extremely cold temperature could freeze the water solid. An easier way to freeze water would be to use the icemaker in your fridge.

2006-10-19 19:27:01 · answer #3 · answered by Wiseass 4 · 0 0

well in the realms of chemical reactions you have endothermic reactions and exothermic reactions of course you could use something as cold as liquid nitrogen to freeze water but this, as a system of freezing water is ineficient you would have to try and freeze the container the water is held and the process would be in essence the opposite of using a stove (conductance) but to look at how a fridge freezer works the chemicals in it "want" to be warm so they are willing to take the heat from the object(water) to make themselves warm and in doing so make the water cool

2006-10-19 19:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by architect 1 · 0 0

Nitrous oxide is laughing gas...so...no.

Liquid nitrogen freezes just about everything on contact...if that's what you were thinking of.

2006-10-19 19:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Shaun 4 · 0 0

nitrous oxide is a gas, i think, so i dunno, might be impossible

2006-10-19 19:06:33 · answer #6 · answered by mcdonaldcj 6 · 0 0

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