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I4-32. Freezing Water By Pumping
Purpose
To freeze water by reducing the ambient pressure.
Equipment
Freezing by pumping chamber with cellophane watchglass, water and eyedropper, vacuum pump.
Suggestions
Ask your students whether this ice is cold like regular ice. Then pass the ice around for them to feel it.
Setup Time
5 minutes.
Images
Description
Place about four drops of water onto a cellophane "watchglass" in the vacuum chamber and evacuate the chamber with the vcacuum pump. Almost immediately the water will begin to bubble (boil), and within about one minute the boiling will subside and the water will freeze. When the water freezes it is clearly seen to become opaque on the overhead projector screen, as seen in the photograph on the right above.
References
Haym Kruglak and Paul M. Loofboro, Freezing Water by Evaporation, AJP 12, 48 (1944). Julius Sumner Miller, Freezing Water by Evaporation - A Remarkable Situation, AJP 18, 238 (1950). Z. V. Harvalik, Vacuum by Freezing, TPT 2, 178-179 (1964). R. L. Wild and D. C. McCollum, Dramatic Demonstration of Change of Phase, AJP 35, 540-541 (1967). Robert N. Stoller, Apparatus for Teaching Physics: Freezing-by-Boiling Apparatus That Does Not Require Acid, TPT 14, 59-60 (1976).
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See pagesi1. thermal properties of matter
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See pagesi2. transfer of heat
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See pagesi3. gases
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See pagesi4. changes of state
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See pagesi5. laws of thermodynamics
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See pagesi1. thermal properties of matter
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See pagesi2. transfer of heat
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See pagesi3. gases
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See pagesi4. changes of state
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See pagesi5. laws of thermodynamics
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