This is just a question for those who might know a bit about thermodynamics.
I recently turned my fridge to a lower setting - that is, I wanted things in the fridge to be colder. It is on the next-to-lowest temperature setting.
In my fridge, I have beer in 12-ounce bottles, 2-liter bottles of soda, a jug of filtered water, a pint of milk, and some 'vitamin' 1-quart non-carbonated waters of various sorts.
I noticed the other day that my vitamin water bottles had all frozen solid. Yet for some reason, nothing else was frozen.
Then, I noticed that after I had opened a 2-liter bottle of soda and poured myself a glass, the soda remaining in the bottle began to freeze like a slushy drink within an hour.
I thought that perhaps the soda in the open bottle was starting to freeze because the empty space in the bottle had been replaced by air, but my pint of milk has been opened for nearly a week, and it is not frozen.
So what would cause soda in a 2-liter bottle to freeze, but only AFTER it had been opened for the first time, and 'vitamin' water in 1-quart bottles to freeze, but not unopened bottles of soda, beer in glass bottles, or an opened carton of milk?
I suspect the alcohol in the beer lowers its freezing point. How about the rest?
I recently turned my fridge to a lower setting - that is, I wanted things in the fridge to be colder. It is on the next-to-lowest temperature setting.
In my fridge, I have beer in 12-ounce bottles, 2-liter bottles of soda, a jug of filtered water, a pint of milk, and some 'vitamin' 1-quart non-carbonated waters of various sorts.
I noticed the other day that my vitamin water bottles had all frozen solid. Yet for some reason, nothing else was frozen.
Then, I noticed that after I had opened a 2-liter bottle of soda and poured myself a glass, the soda remaining in the bottle began to freeze like a slushy drink within an hour.
I thought that perhaps the soda in the open bottle was starting to freeze because the empty space in the bottle had been replaced by air, but my pint of milk has been opened for nearly a week, and it is not frozen.
So what would cause soda in a 2-liter bottle to freeze, but only AFTER it had been opened for the first time, and 'vitamin' water in 1-quart bottles to freeze, but not unopened bottles of soda, beer in glass bottles, or an opened carton of milk?
I suspect the alcohol in the beer lowers its freezing point. How about the rest?