what cause a warm bottle to explode when placed in the freezer overnight?
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When the temperature of the water in the bottle approaches 32 degrees farehheit (the temperature where water freezes) is expands.  This pre-freeze expansion can rupture most nearly full containers.\n\nThe one good thing about this unusual physical phenomenon is that this is the reason that tce forms on the tops of lake or pond water.  This enables people to skate on the ponds in winter time.  The top layer of water freezes, while the lower water stays in a liquid form.
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put it in the freezer and leave it.  the water will freeze and the alcohol won't.  that's why good vodka is kept in the freezer...
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an explosion is an uncontrollable reaction.  So freezing it would make it controllable.  therefore...NO
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It's a solid, so it's already frozen. Heat it up enough, and it will melt.
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When in the bottle or can the solution is in equilibrium with the partial pressure of C02 equal to the pressure in the can. When the can is opened the pressure in the can drops (the ffffft or hiss sound you hear) and now the partial pressure of C02 in the soda solution is greater than the atmospheric pressure. This results in C02 coming out of solution, which causes bubbles to form. The bubbles represent a separate phase, which is a heterogeneous mixture rather than the homogeneous mixture prior to opening.\nNote that the CO2 levels does not completely equilibrate upon opening. Once the solution has come nearly to equilibrium (re CO2), the soda is said to have 'gone flat' and is no longer fizzy.\n\nI'm not sure the presence of oxygen has anything to do with this phenomenon.
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I assume you mean how does that work.\n\nMost liquids expand when heated and contract when cooled. The alcohol in thermometer will expand (rise) when heated and contract (fall) when cooled.
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It'll cost you 2 balloons and 2 sodas to find out.\n\nSolubility almost always increases with temperature, but this rule doesn't work with most gases. In fact, in the case of carbon dioxide, it decreases. The bubbling that you see when you open a bottle is not an effect of the bottle warming to room temperature, though. Increased pressure also increases the solubility and this pressure is released upon removing the cap.
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All matters dosnet expand on heat. Take ice, it shrinks or melts on heat. Hope you liked my short and sweet answwer.
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I've actually tried this.  I put ice in a plastic bag and I also put some in a aliminum foil ball.  I came back 5 hours later and the ice in the plastic bag was melted but the foil ice was intact and partially whole.
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1. Someone said heat rises - not true. Warm air is lighter than cold air, so warm air rises. The evaporator of the fridge being on top will give a more even 'cold' distribution. If the evaporator was on the bottom, the bottom of the fridge would always be colder than the top.\n2. Cold air is heavier than warm air. If the freezer is open on top, the cold air will not escape. If the freezer is upright, with no doors, the freezer will lose all of it's 'cold' air, it will spill out of the freezer.\n3. Radiation\n4. Pit vipers have an infrared sensor. It picks up the heat generated by the rat's body heat, in the form of radiation.\n5. speed of light.
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To be perfectly exact, the melting point of the alpha modification, which has a monoclinic crystal structure, is 53.5 C, the beta form, which is triclinic, has an mp of 54 C.\n\nI suspect your p-dichlorobenzene was contaminated, perhaps with water, causing a freezing point depression.  Another possiblility is that the sample cooled so rapidly, that you overshot the freezing point.
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Strangely enough, the HOT water would freeze first.  There is a chemical explanation for this.
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Was the bottle pressurized within the refrigerator?\n\nUnder higher pressures, water freezes at a lower temperature.  If the bottle was pressurized sufficiently, it could have potentially been cooled down to and below its normal freezing point (0 degrees C) while in the refigerator, then after the bottle was opened and the pressure released (with only a negligible temperature increase) the water would freeze.\n\nLooking at the phase diagram for water,\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/media_461541579/Phase_Diagram_for_Water.html\nthis is a possible explanation for the cause, but might not be what is occuring.\nMore information couldnt hurt.
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When you freeze water it expands, which increases it's volume. With a closed bottle, the pressure gives the expanding water no where to go, therefore the bottle must expand with the water, making it explode.
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The glass is very thin and the bulb is very hot. The sudden change in temperature causes the galss to shatter because glass is not flexible and cannot change that fast. Remember, heat causes expansion and cold causes shrinkage and by doing this, you have caused a small area of shrinkage on the surface of the bulb.
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the outside of the cubes melt the fastest while the inside are still froze.  What happens is the inside refreezes the melting outside therefor sticking together.  This will even happen while in ther freezer (if it is a self-defrosting kind)
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explode or just burst? a bottle of carbonated drink bursts because the water in it freezes, water takes up more volume as ice so breaks the bottle.