Instant Freeze Soda
For this experiment my partner and I were inspired to recreate a experiment we saw on youtube. The experiment was basically putting a coca cola bottle into a freezer for a good amount of time. The purpose of our experiment was to make a coca cola slushie.
The scientific Method
Question: Will the soda turn into a slushie even though we have no idea the temperature of the freezer?
Hypothesis: If the soda is placed in the freezer for enough time, then nucleation is possible.
Materials: Coca Cola 500ml, Freezer(-24 degrees celsius), and Sunkist 500ml.
Experiment steps:
1. Grab soda and shake violently so pressure can build on the top of the bottle.
2. Then place in the freezer for 3hr 15min.
3. After 3hr 15min grab the soda and release the pressure and turn it upside down.
Experience:
When we put the Sodas in in the morning we hadn’t even gotten our proposal checked so it was hard for us to set up. After we finally got our sodas in and capped them off so they wouldn’t explode we had to wait 3h. We came in at lunch because we thought the freezer may be to cold and we would have to take one out early, when we did take it out it wasn’t frozen. after waiting another 30 min we took out the second soda and it was slushy and delicious. we accidentally forgot we put back in the first non working one so at the end of class we took it out and it was perfect… accept because we released all the gas already it was a very go0o0o0owy.
Science Behind It:
As you might remember I wrote previously wrote that I shook the soda violently. The reason why we shook it violently was because we wanted pressure to build up in the bottle. Creating this pressure in the bottle actually helps by decreasing the freezing point of the soda. If creating this pressure, lowers the freezing point I wonder how long would it take for the soda that doesn't have pressure built to reach the same point as the one that does? Once we grab the bottle out of the freezer you noticed we opened the bottle so the pressure built up can escape. If we didn’t do this then the coke will start shooting out slushie coke. After that we twist the cap back on, then turned it upside down. Turning the bottle upside down helped trigger the nucleation. Nucleation is when a phase of matter is in the process of transforming into its next phase, but needs that push.
For this experiment my partner and I were inspired to recreate a experiment we saw on youtube. The experiment was basically putting a coca cola bottle into a freezer for a good amount of time. The purpose of our experiment was to make a coca cola slushie.
The scientific Method
Question: Will the soda turn into a slushie even though we have no idea the temperature of the freezer?
Hypothesis: If the soda is placed in the freezer for enough time, then nucleation is possible.
Materials: Coca Cola 500ml, Freezer(-24 degrees celsius), and Sunkist 500ml.
Experiment steps:
1. Grab soda and shake violently so pressure can build on the top of the bottle.
2. Then place in the freezer for 3hr 15min.
3. After 3hr 15min grab the soda and release the pressure and turn it upside down.
Experience:
When we put the Sodas in in the morning we hadn’t even gotten our proposal checked so it was hard for us to set up. After we finally got our sodas in and capped them off so they wouldn’t explode we had to wait 3h. We came in at lunch because we thought the freezer may be to cold and we would have to take one out early, when we did take it out it wasn’t frozen. after waiting another 30 min we took out the second soda and it was slushy and delicious. we accidentally forgot we put back in the first non working one so at the end of class we took it out and it was perfect… accept because we released all the gas already it was a very go0o0o0owy.
Science Behind It:
As you might remember I wrote previously wrote that I shook the soda violently. The reason why we shook it violently was because we wanted pressure to build up in the bottle. Creating this pressure in the bottle actually helps by decreasing the freezing point of the soda. If creating this pressure, lowers the freezing point I wonder how long would it take for the soda that doesn't have pressure built to reach the same point as the one that does? Once we grab the bottle out of the freezer you noticed we opened the bottle so the pressure built up can escape. If we didn’t do this then the coke will start shooting out slushie coke. After that we twist the cap back on, then turned it upside down. Turning the bottle upside down helped trigger the nucleation. Nucleation is when a phase of matter is in the process of transforming into its next phase, but needs that push.