• Question: Why doesn’t alcohol freeze?

    Asked by meg123 to Amy, Karen, Sarah, Vijay, Will on 19 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Sarah Martin

      Sarah Martin answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Hi meg!

      It does – but not until you cool it to -114 °C (-173.2F)! But then you could make frozen ethanol cubes for cocktails, but they’d be difficult to use and much too cold to lick!
      So that’s why alcohol is used in anti-freeze, because it doesn’t freeze until it gets much colder than your average winter night!

      🙂 Sarah

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