Episode Details

#154

When you're young in science class, you probably learned the phrase "freezing point," but is that even a thing? Is there a specific temperature at which things go from liquid to solid? Spoiler alert: Melissa thinks that's actually a huge misunderstanding about states of matter and how substances go from liquid to solid. So what's really going on? Let's get into it.

References from this episode

1. https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i25/Exploring-Supercooled-Water-Structures.html
2. https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i3/Waters-hypercooling-point-reach.html

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