Is there a temperature at which water would flash-freeze into solid ice?

Answer 1

At normal pressure, there is only one temperature that ice can freeze at, that is 32 F (which is 0 C).

If you put a drop of water into a very cold freezer, say 100 degrees below zero, the water would still freeze at 32 F. First the water would cool to 32 as water. Then the water would turn to ice. You have to take a lot of heat out of the 32 degree liquid water before it will become 32 degree ice. After it becomes 32 degree ice, then it will continue to cool down toward the 100 degrees below zero that the freezer is maintaining.

Some snow machines use the fact that you can keep water liquid at below 32 F if you keep it under pressure. They pressurize the water, then cool it to just below 32 (the pressure keeps it liquid). Then they spray it out a nozzle and as soon as it pops out of the nozzle into the air the pressure is dropped to normal and the water freezes instantly.

Answer 2

My answer is: yes. At what temperature? I have no idea. It would almost certainly at absolute zero (-273.15 °C, or -459.67 °F) as would any other fluid or gas. It would however, have to be a extremely cold temperature; so if you're thinking of buying some kind of souped up freezer because you had to get ice for the punch bowl in 3 seconds, keep your receipt.

Answer 3

Water can be supercooled to any temperature below 0 degrees C. And then if it is disturbed it will "flash freeze".

Answer 4

The regulations of thermodynamics say you're incorrect. warmth strikes from warmer to chillier products. the main probable clarification is that by some skill the water interior the pail that became no longer frozen became easily supercooled - which skill the water became below the freezing factor. once you began warming up the homestead, the two vibrations led to by skill of your action or another ingredient led to the water interior the pail to freeze. because of the fact the water on the spectacular iced up warmth became faraway from the water that iced up and the greater desirable warmth interior the homestead plus the warmth presented by skill of freezing stored something of the water interior the pail from freezing. that's basically an arm waving argument, yet your premise that warmth travelled from chilly to warm is inaccurate.

Answer 5

Yes. I don't know the exact temperature, but if I had to guess, it would be somewhere below minus 100 degrees.

Answer 6

-10 degrees centigrade or 14 degrees Faraheint

Answer 7

-358 deg. C

Answer 8

probably