So I was at the grocery store today and I noticed some big ass bottles of water on sale :s ?
Yes water on sale, why would water be on sale… how could this…why would this… you get the point.
Curiosity got the better of me and I bought some and took it home. I opened the bottle and sniffed it, ok so far.
Took a small sip, not bad tastes like water, ok cool.
I put some in a smaller bottle to freeze and went for my ride.
When I got home and took the bottle out I was shocked to see that this shit would not freeze!!!
It just turned into a lumpy, slushy, weird goop.
Put another kind of water beside it and presto in 3 hours frozen , but this stuff will not freeze!
It’s de-mineralized water. This doesn’t freeze. Reverse osmosis. It’s not really good to drink all the time, but it will do fine in a car battery or steam iron.
The reason you shouldn’t be drinking RO water too often is because bacteria can grow in the containers of it since it lacks any sort of chemical treatment. The osmotic gradient created by the intake of RO water is really not of serious concern as long as you ingest some food with it. However, I definitely don’t recommend you run marathons with RO water as your hydration method.
The reason you shouldn’t be drinking RO water too often is because bacteria can grow in the containers of it since it lacks any sort of chemical treatment. The osmotic gradient created by the intake of RO water is really not of serious concern as long as you ingest some food with it. However, I definitely don’t recommend you run marathons with RO water as your hydration method.[/quote]
Now I know why military folks keep getting heat strokes… They have big ass RO machines and they use those water for doing drills and etc…
It’s de-mineralized and that means it won’t replenish any used minerals or other salts in your body. De-mineralized water doesn’t really freeze, I was told. Probably I’m a little of on saying it’s RO only, maybe they had it, now I know … distilled. Couldn’t find the right word at first.
It is not De-mineralized or de-ionized it is just straight up regular water. I asked my GF, she took one look at the bottle, laughed and said “what are you retarded?”
So the moral of this little story is maybe discount water is not such a good idea. :s
A friend of mine bought tea that must have been made with shifty’s mystery water. She put it in her freezer and forgot about it. Two days later she opened the freezer to discover the tea still in a liquid state.
Don’t believe everything you were told. You say you got this straight from the horse’s mouth, but I think it came out of the other end.[/quote]
I remember reading something about water not freezing with no minerals because it doesn’t have any crystals to form on.
[quote=“www.phys.unsw.edu.au”]How does supercooling work? Ice crystals are only stable if they have a certain minimum size: one cannot, for instance, have one molecule of ice in a volume of liquid water. The minimum size of an ice crystal decreases with sub-freezing temperature, but just below freezing it is large. (See Bryant and Wolfe, 1999, for a more detailed explanation.) Now the chance that a large number of molecules will spontaneously form themselves into such a crystal is small. Consequently, pure water can be cooled well below zero (sometimes to -40
Yes, I remember something like that. Like there are some lakes in Antarctica that will freeze at much lower temperatures, because of the amounts of salt and mineral in the water, right? Isn’t that the case with water on Mars, too?
I have one of those freezers that is just part of the little refridgerator and it’s more difficult to get anything to freeze in there…salt or no salt.
What’s the name of that lake in Antarctica that doesn’t freeze normally? Some man’s name…
