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  1. naj00 says:

    Anyone know how cold it needs to be for this to work?

  2. Joe says:

    Can anyone give me explanation?

    • Boontah says:

      ice has a lower density than water, and heating up things causes them also to have lower density
      so hot water freezes more easily than cold water, because there is enough space between the molecus to instantly form the crystal structure of ice

      • that guy says:

        Any coherent thoughts in the above statement are purely coincidental.

      • Brian-M says:

        Heating liquid water doesn’t make it expand. (Unless it turns into steam, but then it’s no longer liquid water.)

        • Orly says:

          Actually, warming water does make it expan, except up to 4 celcius. Water is at it’s highest density around 4 celcius.

          Water has different densities depending on temperature, which helps mixing layers of water.

          Perhaps you failed physics.

          (Not that this explains what we see on the video.)

  3. cee_ker says:

    ..physics-schmisics..Canadian hot chick WIN..

  4. What? says:

    Would have been better if she did the demonstration with a super soaker.
    And topless, would have been much better topless.

    • Bill says:

      …and instead of water they used baby oil, and squirted each other, and then rubbed each other to keep warm, yeah then it would be much better. But Canada loves their ice too much

    • Canaduck says:

      Jesus Christ, can’t we have one picture of a girl without one of you troglodytes making a comment like this?

      • Bob says:

        You’re new to the internet, aren’t you?

      • Bay-sick? Come on! Sense! says:

        Are you even sexually reproducing life? Because if you were such life, you’d know that we are hard-wired to act like this. Men AND women. Only that women did lie about it, so men didn’t jump on them in droves. Until they believed it to be what they actually want, acting as if it were normal not to want it. And now some pseudo-men fell for that lie to.
        Of course in reality… as a female friend of mine said: Men think about sex very often. Women non-stop.

        And your religious schizophrenia (the “Jesus Christ”) shows us where your delusions come from.

        • Im with stupid says:

          So thats your stupid excuse for being a caveman who didn’t evolve in thousands of years?
          How pathetic.

          • Mick says:

            You know, if humans didn’t think this way there would be no humans. We have been programmed by evolution to want to see each other naked so that we will reproduce. The internet simply adds a layer of anonymity which allows people to say what they would otherwise only think.
            Moral of the story: It’s OK for someone to want to see a person they are attracted to naked.
            Also – Welcome to the internet, we’ve got fun and games.

        • Melissa says:

          Oh really? Then why is their a term for women who experience excessive sexual desire and behavior (nymphomania) but there isn’t for men? Because men have a natural higher sex drive.

          If the motivation is reproduction, men are fertile 100% of the time while women are only fertile for a short window in their cycle and most women would agree that their sexual drive is much higher during that fertile period.

          Of course there are exceptions to both rules (men with lower sex drives and women with higher)

          • Bjorn says:

            “satyriasis” is the word you’re looking for for the thing you don’t think exists but does.

            younger men have a high sex drive. women over 25 usually have a higher sex drive than their male counterparts. younger women actually aren’t that far behind men, but have more societal restrictions that cause them issues. in other words, the excuse of men having a higher sex drive than women is a purely societal construct. some say it’s guarding lineages, some say it’s due to pregnancy, some blame religion, but NOBODY blames sex drive.

            this is, of course, barring what you mentioned about women’s fertility… but you got that wrong too — depending on hormones and the hormonal makeup of the individual, some women are less “driven” when they are most fertile.

            you must’ve had terrible health teachers in school.

            • Orly says:

              I believe women do not act like sex-crazed animals for the sake of not looking like idiots such as yourselves.
              Thanks for playing and good night.

              • Patrick says:

                LOL are you delusional? Women don’t act like sex crazed animals? I assume you’re not one, and aren’t close to any.

      • OrionRed says:

        +5 internets for use of “troglodytes”

      • Cheese says:

        Yehuh just look at one of the few pics with half naked men in it and read the comments, not just men you know.

  5. Et says:

    I was sure the cup was going to break, what a letdown :)

  6. George P says:

    Except the water freezes, not evaporates. You can see it.

    It’s a nice effect, but it’s not science. Nothing is (accurately) explained. Nothing is tested.

  7. Alexandre says:

    I’m Canadian and I can attest that this will work 100% of the time if it is below 0.

    Not 0 degrees celsius, but slightly below. I always found water freezes at around 0, but have seen days which were supposedly 0 but nothing was frozen.

    And, IT IS SCIENCE

    You are not witnessing a science explanation, only a demonstration. Shes not writting a fu%^*ng essay so she doesn’t need to explain. All you need to do is watch, and realize that what you are seeing is explanable by science. It cannot be anything else than science, because only science can explain why that effect happens. It is not magic.

    • CNitro says:

      “I always found water freezes at around 0″

      Actually, 0 degrees Celcius is defined as the temperature at which water freezes. The only variation to that value is due to the atmospheric pressure. Water will freeze at 0 degrees Celcius, at 1 bar of pressure. (or is it 1 atmosphere, can’t remember which).
      Basically this means that if you’re high above sea-level (lower pressure), it will be harder for water to freeze, ie a lower temperature will be required.

      Same thing goes for boiling water, the higher you are, the easier it is to boil water, the lower the temperature.

  8. ninth1der says:

    Hawt chick gets a pass on bad science.
    ^^ Almost no freezing involved, George P. You are not a hawt chick so you DON’T get a pass on bad science.

    Okay, the hot water releases water vapor which can super-saturate the cold air giving the appearance of steam, just like your breath. A curl of vapor is visible off the top of the cup.

    When tossed from the cup the hot water separates into more droplets increasing the surface area for the hot water to release more vapor, super-saturating more of the air. More volume of suddenly super-saturated air gives a larger “cloud.”

    Watch as the left-over water continues to arc through the air and falls to the ground (far right of frame). Then watch as the super-saturated air (“cloud”) dissipates because the temperature and humidity are quickly diluted in the surrounding atmosphere. Doing this in Ireland in May would have almost the same effect since the differential between atmospheric temperature and dew point is negligible.

    A VERY small portion of the water vapor sublimates (moves from vapor to solid) making an artificial snow.

    A screw-type air compressor, after cooler, oil separator, second after cooler, venturi pump, water supply and atomizer orifice will make “snow” in a more spectacular fashion. Ask my neighbors that came home one day to 8 inches of snow on their driveway when it was 40 degrees (F). I don’t know why they didn’t like it or why they blamed it on me.

    • cee_ker says:

      ..whoa, slow down!..i can’t take notes fast enough.. ;P

      • Shady says:

        It certainly does look like it turns to ice, but common sense indicates immedietly that it can’t be. If the air was cold enough to actually FREEZE heated water instantly, then I doubt she could be standing there without gloves and without her head covered. Ninth1der called it right.

        • Minnesooootan says:

          The water is in such tiny droplets once it is thrown in the air that it’s not hard to freeze it quickly. And people from climates like Canada or the Upper Midwest are used to 10-degree or lower weather in the winter. It doesn’t hurt that she’s holding a pitcher and a beaker of warm water, that would help keep her hands warm.

        • Dev says:

          Psh, I’m walking around in -4 without a hat or gloves. I love in Alaska.

          • Alex says:

            psssht… -4 is nothing. Here in Canada we walk around at -20 degrees.

            That was a joke, because -4 Fahrenheit is -20 Celsius.

    • BlaueBlume says:

      Definite comment win :)

      But would you happen to know how cold it has to be for that to happen?
      (and please don’t tell me to jfgi because I’m the bookish type and will be the first to admit that I’m an rtard when it comes to searching google :p )

    • Lurkur says:

      TL;WRL (Will read later)

  9. LOLneb says:

    Science is beauty, eh!

  10. Bay-sick? Come on! Sense! says:

    Pri-mi-tive! I don’t have to try that to know it would happen. It was obvious to me since I knew that cold water becomes ice and snow is ice crystals.

  11. Tommy says:

    I forgot this a Win video….I was expecting something to Fail.

  12. Bobby Feet says:

    Wait, that’s Canada? The accents don’t sound right to me.

    Fun fact: if it’s cold enough and you do that, the water not only freezes in mid-air, it makes a loadish cracking sound as it does. Good times.

  13. Tim says:

    Hey, I gotta few questions about this: How cold does it have to be for this to work? Does it work for other fluids (e.g. coffee, kool-aid, urine) as well? I live in a sometimes very cold place, but I’ve never seen anyone do this here, nor have I ever peed yellow snow :-( Oh, and how hot does the soon-to-be-sprayed-everywhere liquid have to be?

    Much obliged to anyone who can answer these correctly.

  14. Canadian says:

    I should try that today…. it’s -44 C … in Winnipeg. (With the windchill factor)

  15. Guest says:

    Did he died?

  16. McKavian says:

    To add to what ninth1der already said, there is a difference between it vaporizing and actually freezing midair. It has to be -50F or lower for water to actually freeze in the air. This is called ice fog. It is beautiful and terrifying at the same time (especially if you read too many horror novels involving fog). I was in Alaska at -50F and lower for about a month and got to see plenty of it.

  17. Hanna says:

    So glad Toronto doesn’t get that cold.

    • madhatter568 says:

      Also glad that Calgary has chinooks (warm winds that melt snow & ice). I feel sorry for this lady in Yellowknife.

  18. Jeremy says:

    So glad I don’t live in Toronto

  19. william says:

    your winter is our summer here, well, above 10 or 11 °C anyway and as hot as 30°C. im so glad im in new zealand, our winters are relatively mild and rarely get any snow

    • Samantha683 says:

      Thanks for watching and linking this video! Let me know if you try it and please don’t be afraid of winter, it awesome!

  20. Martin says:

    It’s not boiling water she throws. It’s liquid nitrogen.

    There is no way a 100 degree (Celcius) liquid would frezze in a instant in that temperature ^^ She does not even have gloves on :P

  21. Rachel says:

    So glad it doesn’t get like this in Toronto..

  22. Slaytech says:

    Really Really REALLY old trick. Who hasn’t actually seen it before?

  23. Erlend says:

    We do that in the summer in Norway ;)

  24. Daniel says:

    Also look up The Mpemba Effect if you’re interested

  25. nick says:

    not shure why it’s so popular now we can do it every winter here in minnesota

  26. janet says:

    I can verify that it was boiling water, she lives in the northwest terroties so she is used to the cold

  27. bert says:

    Yep, this does work with blood. Ever wonder how Canada has such low crime rates? >=D

  28. Joe says:

    Explanation FAIL. When the water’s thrown up the surface area to volume changes so that it can freeze very quickly and immediately after it sublimates (goes from solid to vapor).

  29. Suekay says:

    Cool vid, but an old trick, and someone did this on BBC news a few months back


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