Milk bottle cracks in freezer .... but .....

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Re: Milk bottle cracks in freezer .... but .....

#21 Post by probes » Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:57 am

Pontius Navigator wrote:
Thu Jun 27, 2019 2:45 pm
... beer in the freezer. The beer, under pressure, was liquid. The instant the cap was removed the beer froze.
- happened to my beer once, quite baffling :). Could be used as magic by someone in the profession?
As for milk - my experience with milk 'straight from the cow' (=unpastorized) is that it seems to be water that freezes (sometimes forming like tiny needles of ice), so it probably depends on the protein, fat etc. content as well?

Freezing hot milk - maybe it's the same as boiling water turning into ice - https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... ideos-spd/ (explained)

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#22 Post by Capetonian » Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:26 am

Sisemen's picture in #18 is easily explained. The milk on the doorstep would have turned to slush at just below 0' and expanded, but it would not have been solid enough to burst the bottle. My freezer is about -15' and I suppose as Ian 16th said, the frozen milk must have formed a solid plug.

The beer bottle phenomenon is easy. As soon as you open the top, the pressure drops causing a drop in temperature, turning the contents to slush. If the beer is colder, it will burst the can or bottle.

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#23 Post by Woody » Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:33 am

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Fri Jun 28, 2019 2:27 am
And this.


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Can’t believe that nobody has posted the METAR that caused this phenomenon L-)
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#24 Post by Pontius Navigator » Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:48 pm


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#25 Post by Woody » Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:33 pm

Our milk froze in the fridge this weekend :((
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Re: Milk bottle cracks in freezer .... but .....

#26 Post by probes » Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:27 pm

Must be global warming around it? :-?

solution: no milk, it's said to be the root of several evils anyway.

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