A team at the University of Nottingham used a simulation that matches experimental and in situ observations to characterize ice on a spectrum between rime ice that forms from water vapor and glaze ice that forms
from supercooled water droplets.
Not exact matches
Supercooled water droplets in a cloud can remain liquid at temperatures far below freezing, their surface tension preventing solid crystals
from forming.
«How
supercooled water is prevented
from turning into ice.»
The difference: in
supercooled water the transition is
from one phase of liquid to another, very similar, phase of liquid
water, upon cooling.
In this activity you will create your own
supercool water and initiate its transition
from liquid to solid.
«The Growth Rate of Crystalline Ice and the Diffusivity of
Supercooled Water from 126 K to 262 K.» Proceedings of the National Academies of Science USA Early Edition, December 12, 2016.
An international team of researchers, led by Arizona State University chemist C. Austen Angell and University of Amsterdam's Dr. Sander Woutersen, has observed one of the more intriguing properties predicted by
water theoreticians — that, on sufficient
supercooling and under specific conditions it will suddenly change
from one liquid to a different one.
It is possible to keep the ice
from freezing (
supercooled), if you use distilled
water and are very careful about the container and not jiggling it, etc..
Freezing nuclei are absorbed into the liquid
water and convert the
supercooled water to ice
from the inside out.