eli5 why is alcohol hard to freeze?
In: Chemistry
Technically, it does freeze it just requires incredibly low temperatures to hit its freezing point. For example, ethanol freezes at around -113°~ C iirc
Why did the universe conspire against vodka popsicles?
Alcohol is hard to freeze because as the alcohol by volume increases the colder the temperatures need to be. For example wine has around 8-14% alcohol by volume and will therefore freeze at -5° C, but Stolichnaya vodka has an alcohol by volume of 40% and would therefore freeze at -24° C.
Easy.
Water molecules are closer to each other than alcohol. This is because the H and O bonds is more attractive than C and O bonds in alcohol. This also means water molecules become a rigid array easier than alcohol.
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