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From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: sudden freezing of soda when cover is removed
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Date: Wed, 4-Jan-84 15:07:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  4 15:07:30 1984
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I think that the freezing of soda mentioned is from adiabatic cooling
when the bottle was opened.  When the pressure on a substance is lowered
suddenly (not enough time for heat to flow), the substance will cool off.
If the soda was very near its freezing point when it was opened, this
temperature drop would have been sufficient to start the freezing process.
Most of the time when I have been unfortunate enough to leave a soda
bottle in a cold place, it has frozen.  Often breaking the bottle.  It is
my impression that supercooling a fluid is very difficult and can usually
only be performaed under laboratory conditions.