Keeping ICE from EXPANDING?? (in liquid nitrogen)

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Published 2021-03-27
I filled steel boxes with water and froze them to see if they would explode and what it would take to keep ice from expanding!

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Major Edward William's letter on the force of freezing water:
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Another article on examples of ice experiments (page 661):
books.google.com/books?id=tRdLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA661&lp…

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0:00 Intro
0:58 Playing with liquid nitrogen
1:31 Small scale test
3:24 Welding
4:03 My predictions
5:21 The V.T.C.M
5:41 Testing steel boxes
10:47 Will the wax explode?

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All Comments (21)
  • @theHacksmith
    Love this! First time finding your channel -- you're going places!
  • The reason the soup can doesn't swell is because when they come from the factory they are actually slightly vacuumed so when you open it the soup doesn't blow out of the can.
  • @TangHeyman
    I am a welder. What looks like to me, is that the 1/4" thick box have defect in the weld. The weld didn't penetrate all the way. Therefore the split happened right on the weld. You may compare this result with the thin box. The split isn't right on the weld. It happens next to the weld. That tells me the penetrate is enough. But undercut or temperature change too quick might course this issue. What I want to point out is, if you did the weld on the 1/4' as good as the 1/8" box, they should have the same result.
  • Holding that cube so close to your face, while the metal is still going through a reaction….Brave man
  • @bjarnivalur6330
    Fun fact: This is how we used to remove rocks here in Iceland, drill a hole into it fill it with water and wait for it to freeze. Nowadays dynamite is a lot quicker.
  • “I’ve never used a fire extinguisher” That’s honestly the most surprising thing in the whole video
  • A dozen years ago I read about an experimental bicycle in a cold country - Norway, maybe - that used a water-filled cylinder. The bike, left outdoors overnight, froze the water; the expansion pushed a piston against a massive spring to load it to power a gear-train for riding next day.
  • @pianoten
    I was scared the whole time. He definitely underestimated the danger. I have a masters degree in theoretical chemistry and I most definitely know how violent such enclosed steel containers can blow up. I wouldnt go anywhere near that burning wax container. If that thing blew up while he used the fire extinguisher it could actually kill him. Also it would be extremely loud anyways so I doubt it was a good idea in the first place to do this kind of experiment in the vicinity of your neighbors
  • @georg2010cz
    8:07 You had some balls there handling the cube right after taking it out, could go off any moment as the pressure could be still contained.
  • @MegaAwsome555
    “Oh, okay” That is the calmest reaction I’ve ever seen to something catching on fire
  • It is very cool how you mention the Ductile to Brittle transition temperature in steel as "Steel embrittlement", learning all about materials and their properties from a few college classes really has made these sorts of videos more interesting.
  • @miles11we
    Remember that extinguishers need to be serviced after cracking the seal, they won't hold pressure afterwards, so its not like you can just hang it back on the wall expecting it to work a year later.
  • You do such an amazing job with your videos! The whole team really loves what you're doing.
  • @SckharVawn
    I just found this channel thanks to youtube random recommendations and I gotta say, I love how enthusiastic he is about all of it, it makes watching it more pleasant. The experiment is pretty neat too, I had no idea ice could be this powerful when expanding xD
  • This great material. As a teacher, I can use this stuff to demonstrate molecular behaviour, shapes and their strenghts, properties and much more. Excellent stuff. Your enthusiasm is contagious. You make me think of Adam Savage a little bit
  • @bensinor4974
    Antman is quite possibly one of the best movies for bad physics lol.
  • "hot digidy" I dont think ive ever heard that un-ironically lol
  • When he held the 1/8" box close to his face all I could think about was how absolutely insane he was... basically holding what is a makeshift bomb.