what happeneds if you freez vodka?

Answer 1

Vodka has too much alcohol in it to freeze in a regular freezer. It would take a super cold one to do it. I found this out when I was a teen...by stealing my dads vodka and replacing it with water. Yep, you guessed it...he kept the bottle in the freezer and when it froze I was busted!

Answer 2

Nothing. Some vodkas might become syrupy (flavoured type) but generally it wont freeze.
Here is a background on vodka
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Vodka is a typically colorless liquor, always distilled from fermented grain or potatoes. It is thought that the term is diminutive of the Slavic word "voda" (woda, вода) for "water."

Except for insignificant amounts of flavorings, vodka consists of water and alcohol (ethanol). Vodka usually has an alcohol content ranging from 35% to 70% by volume ("Vodka Rassputin"). The classic Russian vodka is 40% (80 degrees proof), the number being attributed to the famous Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. According to the Vodka Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Mendeleev thought the perfect percentage to be 38, but since spirits in his time were taxed on their strength the percentage was rounded up to 40 to simplify the tax computation.

Although vodka is generally drunk neat in its Central European and Scandinavian homeland, its growth in popularity elsewhere owes much to its usefulness in cocktails and other mixed drinks, such as the Bloody Mary, the Screwdriver, the White Russian, Geezer Sauce, the Gimlet, and the Vodka Martini (also known as a Vodkatini), a dry martini made with vodka instead of gin.
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Vodka evolved over the years with the help of the taxman.
Due to the high alcohol content of certain brands of vodka, it can be stored in ice or a freezer without any crystalization of water. In countries where alcohol levels are generally low (the USA for example, due to alcohol taxation levels varying directly with alcohol content), individuals sometimes increase the alcohol percentage by a form of freeze distillation. This is done by placing the vodka in an open vessel (bowl, etc) in the freezer, and then after it has reached a temperature below the freezing point of water, adding one or more ice cubes, to which the free water within the vodka will crystalize, leaving a higher alcohol concentration behind.

Answer 3

Despite all the answers to the contrary.. vodka CAN freeze. EVERYTHING can freeze.. It's just a matter of getting it cold enough. Your freezer at home won't be able to get cold enough to freeze the vodka however.
To freeze your vodka you would need to lower it's temperature to something close to -89 degrees C... In short. You probably won't be able to freeze it.

Answer 4

Often, the vodka is drunk well-chilled. Unless your freezer is exceptionally cold, you can keep a bottle of vodka in it, and it won't freeze. The vodka will become thick and syrupy. Drink it in small glasses. If you become a real fan of icy vodka, use small glasses with a stem so your hands don't warm the vodka up. Chill the glasses, too.

Answer 5

This is basically how you keep you liquor the coldest. SInce vodka does not freeze when water freezes the freezer is where you should keep it and all other hard alcohol bottles. I am sure it will freeze at some temperature but your freezer cannot get that cold.

Answer 6

Usually alcohol does not freeze at regular freezer temperature. If you stick a bottle of vodka in the freezer it will get very cold, but it will not freeze. Alcohol does freeze at extremely low temperature so...if the vodka were to reach that temperature, it would freeze into a solid.

Answer 7

Goes very cold - but won't freeze. Lots of people keep their vodka bottles in the freezer.

Answer 8

Hello,

Why? do you think the Russians invented the stuff?? I think they know a thing or too about Wodka!! Its their national tipple, and why even when it -50 below freezing you can still drink wodka (bearing in mind its probably only -30 inside the house with the heating on full blast?? :-)

**Oh! and bear in mind if you ever go to Eastern Europe Never Ever Ever!! challange a Russian to a drinking contest. You'll probably end up with a pickled liver & die before you can out drink a serious drinking Russian. Just thought you might like to know this useless bit of information.

**They have a very serious problem in Russia with alcoholism and alot of people died as a consiquence of corrupt vodka production.

IR

Answer 9

Vodka does not freeze because it is alcohol.And alcohol doesn't freeze

Answer 10

You asked for it! hears your answer :-)

Ethanol freezes at –110°C or something obscene like that. And it thickens more as it gets closer to that point. But you'd need to determine the density of your syrupy component to know the exact temperature

80 proof vodka will freeze at approximately -26.95C or -16.51F. 100 proof vodka will freeze at approximately -40.43C or -40.78F

Your home freezer would have to be really something to be able to totally freeze alcohol.

If you want to calculate the freezing point of Vodka go through the following exercise.

Assume 1000g of soln, we'll use 80 proof in this example, 40% ethyl alcohol (CH3OH) and 60% H2O. That means we'll have 400g of CH3OH and 600g (0.6kg) H2O.

First, obtain the number of moles of CH3OH in the soln to determine molaity. CH3OH has a molar mass of 46.7g/mol.

(Mass CH3OH) / (Molecular Weight CH3OH) = moles CH3OH

(400g CH3OH) / (46.7g/mol CH3OH) = 8.57 mol CH3OH

Next calculate the molality of the soln.

(Moles Solute) / (Mass Solvent) = Molaity

(8.57 mol CH3OH ) / (0.6kg H2OH) = 14.28m

Now, plug into the freezing point depression equation.

Delta T = K(sub F)m

Delta T = (-1.86m/C)(14.28m) = -26.56C

Therefore a soln of 40% ethyl alcohol and 60% water would have a feezing point of 0C + (-26.56C) = -26.56C

To convert to F use, C = (F-32) * ( 5/9) or F = -15.81F

Or the dirty way (change the 40 in that equation to proof/2).

and Nessa..whatever is full of s**t! up doing equations my ****! she copied it off the web just as I did! ppfft! chemist! yeah right! LMAO!