*cue X-Files music*
Snooze and I were just settling down to dinner when we opened a bottle of wine. It had been in the freezer for maybe two hours because it was essentially room temperature when we got it home.
When it came out of the freezer, we could clearly see some little bits of ice floating in it, but only a couple of bits.
But here's the weird part.
Snooze pulled the cork and within seconds the whole thing froze solid in front of us. So quick was the process that Snooze actually put it back down on the bench and backed off fearing some kind of winey explosion (not of the Andrew Bolt kind - ZING).
It settled down to just a solid block of ice and no explosions were had, but it was very bizarre.
I reckon it might have something to do with the alcohol escaping when the bottle was opened allowing the wine inside to freeze rapidly - but that's pure poorly-educated speculation.
Any science nerds want to have a crack at solving this one?
Where's Julius Sumner Miller when you need him?
No comments:
Post a Comment