Once ice crystals appear in one of your bottles, check the others. If they all have ice crystals, write down the time — when you repeat the experiment, remove the bottles fifteen minutes sooner. Once you have carefully removed the bottle s from the freezer, simply give it a quick jolt and watch the water freeze right before your eyes!
When water becomes a solid, it releases heat, warming up its surroundings. This makes freezing an exothermic reaction. Usually, this heat is able to escape into the environment, but when a supercooled water bottle freezes, the bottle holds much of that heat inside. The water simultaneously freezes and warms up, producing a slushy mixture of water and ice.
Planning a trip to the Adventure Science Center? Come visit our infrared wall to see an example of the opposite phenomenon, an endothermic reaction. Where an exothermic reaction releases heat, an endothermic reaction absorbs heat. One common endothermic reaction is ice melting. The infrared wall will help you see that while the temperature in a cup of ice may be slowly rising, the area around the cup will appear much cooler.
In order for water to change from a solid into a liquid, it needs to draw heat into itself from its surroundings. In fact heat must be continually removed from the freezing water or the freezing process will stop.
Our experience makes it easy for us to realize that to boil water or any liquid and thereby convert into a gas, heat is required and the process is endothermic. It is less intuitive to grasp that when a gas condenses to a liquid, heat is given off and the process is exothermic.
Perhaps it is easier to explain an exothermic phase change using the following argument. Liquid water had to have energy put into it to become steam, and that energy is not lost. Instead, it is retained by the gaseous water molecules. When these molecules condense to form liquid water again, the energy put into the system must be released.
And this stored energy is let out as exothermic heat. The same argument can be made for the process of freezing: energy is put into a liquid during melting, so freezing the liquid into a solid again returns that energy to the surroundings. Like phase changes, chemical reactions can occur with the application or release of heat.
Those that require heat to occur are described as endothermic, and those that release heat as exothermic. Although we are generally quite familiar with endothermic phase changes, we are probably even more familiar with exothermic chemical reactions: Almost everyone has experienced the warmth of a fireplace or campfire. Burning wood provides heat through the exothermic chemical reaction of oxygen O with cellulose C 6 H 10 O 5 , the major chemical component of wood, to produce carbon dioxide CO 2 , steam H 2 O and heat.
In today's space age, probably everyone has seen a rocket launch on television or, if lucky, in person. What powers those rockets are highly exothermic chemical reactions.
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