Alcademics

Tag: ice

  • Does Distilled Water Freeze Clearer than Tap Water?

    In my last set of icesperiments, I froze, melted, and refroze (tap) water to see if it became clearer on successive refreezings. It did not.

    This time I compared tap water with distilled water to see if one would freeze more clearly than the other. I froze it, then melted and refroze it four more times. Though neither froze super clear, there were differences:

    DistilledVsTap 

    The tap water seems to freeze either clear or not clear, where the distilled water freezes in more of a bubble starburst. But in the end I'd say there's not enough of a difference to matter. 

    After the break, a closeup of the distilled vs. tap ice.

    The icesperiments shall continue!

    An index of ice experiments on Alcademics can be found here.

     

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  • Does Refreezing Ice Make it Clearer?

    I am trying a series of experiments to find the best and most practical way to make clear ice in my home freezer. Future experiments include distilled vs. tap water, boiled vs. not boiled, hot vs. cold water, different shapes of containers, etc.

    For this experiment, I started with plain tap water. I then froze it, took a picture, let it thaw back into liquid, and repeated the process. 

    The test was to see if freezing and refreezing tap water would make it become clearer on successive freezings (due to the release of oxygen trapped in the ice) each time. 

    So did it become clearer? The short answer is No. The long and visual answer is below.

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