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[JackofDiamonds]

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[Cole Burns]

That's the only good use of a Corona.

[go birds]

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[AdmiralKird]

NSFW, yes, its not safe for work.

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[G. Keenan]

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What's going on there? Is the beer basically at freezing point and opening it and tapping it on the counter causes it to fizz and freeze or something?

[Schlich]

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What's going on there? Is the beer basically at freezing point and opening it and tapping it on the counter causes it to fizz and freeze or something?

The liquid has been cooled below freezing temperature for a long period of time. However, in order for the "freezing" to occur, there has to be a starting point of some sort of particle that the frozen particles can form off of. In a supercooled liquid, there isn't any such particle (because it's a pure liquid--no solid present), and when he bangs the glass on the table, some solid particle makes its way into the bottle somehow so that the first few particles can freeze onto that particle, and it starts a chain reaction of sorts and the liquid freezes really quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling

[G. Keenan]

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What's going on there? Is the beer basically at freezing point and opening it and tapping it on the counter causes it to fizz and freeze or something?

The liquid has been cooled below freezing temperature for a long period of time. However, in order for the "freezing" to occur, there has to be a starting point of some sort of particle that the frozen particles can form off of. In a supercooled liquid, there isn't any such particle (because it's a pure liquid--no solid present), and when he bangs the glass on the table, some solid particle makes its way into the bottle somehow so that the first few particles can freeze onto that particle, and it starts a chain reaction of sorts and the liquid freezes really quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling

So is that not real beer in the bottle then? Because if you put normal beer in the freezer it freezes.

[ghostrunner]

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What's going on there? Is the beer basically at freezing point and opening it and tapping it on the counter causes it to fizz and freeze or something?

The liquid has been cooled below freezing temperature for a long period of time. However, in order for the "freezing" to occur, there has to be a starting point of some sort of particle that the frozen particles can form off of. In a supercooled liquid, there isn't any such particle (because it's a pure liquid--no solid present), and when he bangs the glass on the table, some solid particle makes its way into the bottle somehow so that the first few particles can freeze onto that particle, and it starts a chain reaction of sorts and the liquid freezes really quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling

So is that not real beer in the bottle then? Because if you put normal beer in the freezer it freezes.

I'm not sure. I had this happen with a plastic frosty mug once, the kind you keep in the freezer and filled with liquid around the sides. But it just happened the one time.

[planet planet]

Courtesy of Matt Sebek:

[cards2468]

Courtesy of Matt Sebek:

I wonder if that's his son on his right hand side.