eli5 why is alcohol hard to freeze?

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eli5 why is alcohol hard to freeze?

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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.

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