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Electric Charge Can Change the Freezing Point of Water

Posted February 08, 2010 8:33 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes. A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on is positively or negatively charged. Under certain conditions, water can even freeze as it heats up.

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Re: Electric Charge Can Change the Freezing Point of Water

02/09/2010 1:52 PM

It seems ice and water are much more complex than we see in everyday encounters with this stuff. The more we learn about it the more interesting it gets. I wonder what will come from these new discoveries about such common stuff.
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