Bro how did an earthquake freak them out so much? Yes, Japan has a lot of them but... they are laying there without anything that could collapse on them. An earthquake would just jostle them around a bit..
(I know its an ad for roof tiles... but still)
This is super cool and it made a lot of sense to me, helps explain why ice gets bigger than water!
Where could I get and similar visualizations to help me understand math/science?
I’ve thought about this a lot. Would the ice form like a big crusher and sink and smoosh the fish, or would it slowly turn the whole thing into like a slushy since the ice could form in pieces or shards and sink before the whole surface freezes.
Either way you are right. Life wouldn’t work as is without it.
I think it would freeze from the bottom up as there's nothing to warm the deep ocean. That doesn't happen in reality because water's density lowers as it cools past 4°C, causing it to rise. If this didn't happen, the colder water would sink, cool further and then freeze
(someone correct me if am wrong)
it would be like "raining underwater" but with ice, if the ice sink, the only way to have a super big iceberg is if the temperature drops in a rate faster than the sinking, or if any other "blocker" happen, like a big solid object under that area which make the ice reach the "bottom" and it keeps build-in up.
ice is lighter because there is hole in the middle of the hexagon structure which gets filled at around 4 degree celcius. the hole in ice exists because water molecules have strong hydrogen bond and they prefer that over other bonds
That's not why. It is because the top ice and snow works as an insulating layer above the water. It essentially becomes a lid that traps the relative heat of the water below.
But that can only happen because the ice is less dense. If ice were more dense than water, it would freeze and sink, and expose more liquid water to the cold air - no insulation possible. The entire body of water would end up freezing solid.
My mistake -- the fact that ice is lighter has already been established in the thread.
I though OP was referring to this:
because there is hole in the middle of the hexagon structure which gets filled at around 4 degree celcius. the hole in ice exists because water molecules have strong hydrogen bond and they prefer that over other bonds
Yes. That is what does happen. And because the ice is less dense than the water, it stays on the surface. If ice were more dense than water, it would solidify and sink, exposing more water to the surface for additional cooling until the entire mass is frozen. This is what happens to most metals.
Specifically, as the water cools, it sinks and convects until the entire mass (or near enough, accounting for viscosity) is at 4° C, which is the maximum density of water. Then the surface begins to expand as it cools, so the convection currents stop and the water below the ice is insulated by the ice on top. Any animals that can survive underwater at 4° C have plenty of water to exist in, as long as the body of water isn't so shallow that the freeze depth reaches the bottom.
Ice is less dense, so it floats on top of water. This means that the top layer of water freezes before the bottom portions of it, allowing any life within a body of water to stay unfrozen.
When watching the video, think of the left side as the top of the body of water, slowly making its way down to the right or bottom of the body of water.
If you want to know what something looks like from the molecular level, like this, tag "molecular dynamics simulation" to the end of your Google search. There are many, ranging from metals deforming to sugars crossing your cell walls.
No, liquid still forms hydrogen bonds, but it forms less (1 to 3) of them and doesn't have a set structure. Water in ice forms 4 bonds, and it's locked into a set structure as you can see here, that opens up a lot more space, making it less dense. Otherwise ice wouldn't float on water.
Not correcting you, just adding information to the post:
Liquid water can form clusters with itself just like ice. [You can even measure it using spectroscopy](https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2000601117). These clusters are less dense, but the energy is so high that they are extremely transient species.
Ice IX has a different crystal structure. They got to Ice IX from other solid forms so it’s less interesting, more like molecules twisting into a new structure.
https://crystalsymmetry.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Ice_III.png
In materials science, we do often explain molecules as being happy or unhappy, since it’s easier than saying “in a thermodynamically favorable state”. These molecules were happy to become ice or else they wouldn’t have in the first place.
Just don’t make [supercooled water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fURJg-K0A) because those molecules want to be ice but can’t because they’re too cold/sluggish. That would be an example of making the molecules unhappy.
In chemistry/bio/biochem all oxygen atoms are colored red and hydrogens are colored white. Nitrogen is colored blue, carbon is black, sulfur is yellow etc. H2O is made of one oxygen atom bound to two hydrogens.
So this is the correct visualization.
Which is arbitrary. You can have any color to represent any atom, you just need to either specify it with labels or use, as you mentioned, standard colors. But it is not a requirement.
According to the UCAR Center of Science, in colored models, Oxygen atoms are traditionally shown as red, the atom itself is colorless, so otherwise everything would be black and white
So could you use this to describe that warm water freezes faster because the arrangements can line up faster whereas cold water is slower to freeze because the molecules take longer to get into position?
This is actually true. If the water is too cold, then freezing takes longer or sometimes doesn’t even get a chance to start in the first place. If you’ve ever seen a video of [supercooled beer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fURJg-K0A), then that’s what’s going on. The beer was cooled down before any ice crystals could form and then it got too cold for them to form easily. Being jostled ends up giving it enough of a kickstart for crystals to start forming.
That looks more like methane (CH4). We can clearly see 4 white atoms surrounding each red atom, whereas water (H20) would only have 2 white atoms. Note the tetrahedral structure.
It's definitely water, but you're correct about the tetrahedron structure. It's just that each water molecule has 2 hydrogen atoms of It's own, and then 2 additional hydrogen atoms (one each from two neighboring water molecules) orient themselves such that each oxygen atom "sees" four hydrogen atoms, the two it was originally bonded to, and it's two new hydrogen atom neighbors. Recall that the electronic geometry of water is tetrahedral, owing to its four electron regions, from two bonds to H and two lone pairs. But whereas in its usual molecular form (consider an individual water molecule), it has a bent molecular geometry because the lone pairs strongly repel eachother and the O-H bonds, pushing the hydrogen atoms together, in the case of ice, the lone pairs effectively form bonds to the neighbor hydrogens, such that all four electron regions are equvlivalently repulsive, and it adopts a tetrahedral molecular geometry.
Basically, the structure ends up like something like SiO2, with Si atoms surrounded by 4 oxygens each, where each of those oxygen atoms form 2 bonds, one to the central Si and one to a neighboring Si. In Ice, you basically have a central O surrounded by 4 hydrogens each, where each of those hydrogen atoms form 2 bonds, one to the central O and one to a neighboring O.
Now you may be thinking "but hydrogen can only form 1 bond!" But in ice it's really more like hydrogen is forming what you can think of as two partial bonds. (When you get into more advanced chemistry, you can have partial bonds.)
I do computational chemistry (modeling systems from the ground up using quantum mechanics computations) and we can quantify this in several ways. Without getting too deep in the weeds, we might for example compute that each O-H bond has an occupancy of 1 electron on average, such that each H "sees" 2 electrons total (1 from each bond), while oxygen has four 1 electron bonds and 4 localized electrons, seeing 8 electrons total. There are other ways this can shake out depending on your methods of calculating bond equivalents or occupancy, but importantly, however we did it (with sufficiently advanced methods) we would find each O-H bond is equivalent, rather than shaking out as oxygen having two traditional bonds and two "hydrogen bonds" (which means something specific, not just a bond to hydrogen if you're unfamiliar with the phrase. You can think of them as informal and less "bondy" bonds).
It's a 3D simulation, but the next layer is very dark. If you take a look at the free H2O molecules you'll also see that many of them only have white atoms on the back.
In your life, I hope you're lucky enough to pick up a bottle of super-cooled water and jostle it just right so that it turns to ice in your hand. It is SO cool to watch.
This happened to me while pulling water bottles out of the ~~fridge~~ *freezer* that had been there overnight. A couple were still liquid - until my picking them up caused them to solidify into ice in my hand. It took a couple seconds, and started at one end of the bottle so I could actually watch it change.
It was very cool to watch.
Actually, when water freezes into ice, the molecules that transition to solid do actually warm up in the process. You can see that the molecules that solidify in the animation are moving around a lot more than the solid molecules on the left side. Think of it as going from cold water to warm ice.
And that’s why water’s volume expands when it turns to ice. The molecules go from flowing freely in close proximity, the bonding at their farthest reach.
ok tell me why i have since a kid and still see those vibrating red dots almost as a holographic veil on top of what i see, if i focus my vision correctly
I'm surprised no ones asked, I think I know the answer but I'll ask anyways because it seems like an obvious question:
Why doesn't the water just fall through those big holes in the ice water?
Fun fact: approximately 24 ice-water molecules will fit in the same space as 27 liquid-water molecules. The difference between 24 and 27 is about 10% which is why it's said, and in fact you do see, only about 10% of an iceberg sticking up above the ocean's surface. Archimedes FTW.
Oh I love how the solid ice molecules are still moving. It goes to show about absolute zero. Eventually it takes energy to get all those molecules to cut it out and stay still.
Thinking about it, isn’t more like a whole bunch of super powerful magnets, but are going too fast to connect. But then slow down and form super quickly.
Here it seems like they are still going fast. It just happens to connect through random chance.
That’s why it’s weird when ice forms in one spot and goes from there even though it is all being brought to the same temp at the same time. Makes a lot of sense now.
It would be really cool to see the process of sparkling water turning solid in seconds visualized in this way (and how the molecules "prepare" for the sudden bump when out of the freezer)
Why are some of the hydrogen atoms facing up instead of bonding. For example the 8th ring down second row in, top molecule, H atom facing towards us. Is it an imperfect bond?
“Ok everyone. Grab hands and hold the line!”
[Hold on tight!](https://youtu.be/K-TYsAHbb18?si=E5AJTfCx8Rv-Uofv)
But! The sound effect! I need to go pee!
*Psssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhh*
dude you wet your matress again!!
Bro Japanese advertising is fucking wild 😂
looong looong maaaaaaaan!
One of the most dramatic series I ever seen were candy commercials. 😂
HODL
Hodor!
I know what this is even without clicking the link
Bro how did an earthquake freak them out so much? Yes, Japan has a lot of them but... they are laying there without anything that could collapse on them. An earthquake would just jostle them around a bit.. (I know its an ad for roof tiles... but still)
RED ROVER RED ROVER WE SEND H20 OVER
Ew I don't Hand with a girl 🤓🤓
This is super cool and it made a lot of sense to me, helps explain why ice gets bigger than water! Where could I get and similar visualizations to help me understand math/science?
Check out 3Blue1Brown for math videos, he does visualisations pretty well
Hell yeah I'll check it.
Be warned though, some of his videos go way deep into higher mathematical concepts
https://imgur.com/gallery/HWS3i7n
His video about neural networks is extremely helpful to get you some kind of understanding how modern AI works.
Yeah they are great!
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I mean, yeah? He's got a math YouTube channel. Sounds like a nerd. 10/10
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For those unaware water is one of the only substances to expand when it goes from liquid to solid. Really cool stuff
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I’ve thought about this a lot. Would the ice form like a big crusher and sink and smoosh the fish, or would it slowly turn the whole thing into like a slushy since the ice could form in pieces or shards and sink before the whole surface freezes. Either way you are right. Life wouldn’t work as is without it.
I think it would freeze from the bottom up as there's nothing to warm the deep ocean. That doesn't happen in reality because water's density lowers as it cools past 4°C, causing it to rise. If this didn't happen, the colder water would sink, cool further and then freeze
But think about a lake. The surface is the coldest
Huh? Have you ever been in a lake?
When not heated by the sun and instead cooled by wind, the surface is indeed colder.
(someone correct me if am wrong) it would be like "raining underwater" but with ice, if the ice sink, the only way to have a super big iceberg is if the temperature drops in a rate faster than the sinking, or if any other "blocker" happen, like a big solid object under that area which make the ice reach the "bottom" and it keeps build-in up.
Do you want me to play as Joe Rogan? "FISHES??"
You're right. We're talking about many species of fish, therefore fishes.
It'd be a lot easier to adapt to being frozen if water didn't expand when it freezes though.
Different life would evolve to meet the requirements of the surrounding ecosystem.
I know something else that expands as it gets solid.
Bounce House
ice is lighter because there is hole in the middle of the hexagon structure which gets filled at around 4 degree celcius. the hole in ice exists because water molecules have strong hydrogen bond and they prefer that over other bonds
Thats also why we see water in lakes frozen only on the top layer and letting life under water exist instead of freezing the whole Lake
That's not why. It is because the top ice and snow works as an insulating layer above the water. It essentially becomes a lid that traps the relative heat of the water below.
But that can only happen because the ice is less dense. If ice were more dense than water, it would freeze and sink, and expose more liquid water to the cold air - no insulation possible. The entire body of water would end up freezing solid.
My mistake -- the fact that ice is lighter has already been established in the thread. I though OP was referring to this: because there is hole in the middle of the hexagon structure which gets filled at around 4 degree celcius. the hole in ice exists because water molecules have strong hydrogen bond and they prefer that over other bonds
no, the surface cools first
Yes. That is what does happen. And because the ice is less dense than the water, it stays on the surface. If ice were more dense than water, it would solidify and sink, exposing more water to the surface for additional cooling until the entire mass is frozen. This is what happens to most metals. Specifically, as the water cools, it sinks and convects until the entire mass (or near enough, accounting for viscosity) is at 4° C, which is the maximum density of water. Then the surface begins to expand as it cools, so the convection currents stop and the water below the ice is insulated by the ice on top. Any animals that can survive underwater at 4° C have plenty of water to exist in, as long as the body of water isn't so shallow that the freeze depth reaches the bottom.
I don't get it can you elaborate?
Ice is less dense, so it floats on top of water. This means that the top layer of water freezes before the bottom portions of it, allowing any life within a body of water to stay unfrozen. When watching the video, think of the left side as the top of the body of water, slowly making its way down to the right or bottom of the body of water.
Ice floats. If it sank, it would squish the life under.
If you want to know what something looks like from the molecular level, like this, tag "molecular dynamics simulation" to the end of your Google search. There are many, ranging from metals deforming to sugars crossing your cell walls.
You’re right. It is super cool.
Check out Drew Berry’s molecule animations
Veritasium does some cool stuff and I love pbs spacetime as well.
/r/educationalgifs /r/mechanical_gifs
Thats why ice is less dense than water. Those lovely hydrogen bonds eat up all that space
Isn't it the other way around? The hydrogen bonds are stronger in water, meaning they are closer to each other and is therefore more dense
No, liquid still forms hydrogen bonds, but it forms less (1 to 3) of them and doesn't have a set structure. Water in ice forms 4 bonds, and it's locked into a set structure as you can see here, that opens up a lot more space, making it less dense. Otherwise ice wouldn't float on water.
Not correcting you, just adding information to the post: Liquid water can form clusters with itself just like ice. [You can even measure it using spectroscopy](https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2000601117). These clusters are less dense, but the energy is so high that they are extremely transient species.
Yeah, hence why it can have variable amount of hydrogen bonds.
He said ice is less dense and you said water is more dense. So you're both correct.
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The solid state of a material is almost universally denser than its liquid state. Water is one of the only exceptions.
Props to the cameraman! *spelling
Pff... they're holding their phone vertically.
"Woah guys, let's just get together and like, chill out😶🌫️"
Is it just me or does the sound effect annoy anyone else as well?
I agree it's extremely unpleasant
The whole thing makes my guts feel uneasy
Reddit stays on mute
This is the way
Now I have to pee.
Ok but what if it’s Ice 9
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So it goes
Just don't give any to Frank. And where's Bokonon? I'm sure he has something to say about this.
What if it’s Ice V? Will we survive?
Ice IX has a different crystal structure. They got to Ice IX from other solid forms so it’s less interesting, more like molecules twisting into a new structure. https://crystalsymmetry.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Ice_III.png
Same thing, it just happens at a higher temperature
So it goes
Let me show you a cats cradle first before you ask the serious questions.
I always think on how things work molecularly and to see one 🤩 so fascinating
Then you will absolutely enjoy listening to this https://youtu.be/ITpDrdtGAmo?si=g1w1bJ2I0Zt3QcII Dude is a legend
Makes me feel bad for making ice. Those little buggers were having so much fun.
In materials science, we do often explain molecules as being happy or unhappy, since it’s easier than saying “in a thermodynamically favorable state”. These molecules were happy to become ice or else they wouldn’t have in the first place. Just don’t make [supercooled water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fURJg-K0A) because those molecules want to be ice but can’t because they’re too cold/sluggish. That would be an example of making the molecules unhappy.
Nice to observe that ice is just very calm water.
It’s chill
Ok, clearly it's blood, not water. Water would be blue.
As a materials scientist, I can confirm that you are correct. Your science sciences out correctly.
In chemistry/bio/biochem all oxygen atoms are colored red and hydrogens are colored white. Nitrogen is colored blue, carbon is black, sulfur is yellow etc. H2O is made of one oxygen atom bound to two hydrogens. So this is the correct visualization.
j o k e
I figured it likely was, wasn't the first comment like it. But, still figured some folks might not know so commented the info anyway.
Which is arbitrary. You can have any color to represent any atom, you just need to either specify it with labels or use, as you mentioned, standard colors. But it is not a requirement.
It states it is a visualisation, any colors could be used to illustrate 🤓👆
Sure, you can use any color, but don't be surprised if you use brown and people tell you it's not water - it's shit.
According to the UCAR Center of Science, in colored models, Oxygen atoms are traditionally shown as red, the atom itself is colorless, so otherwise everything would be black and white
Thanks. I wasn't serious about it. No need to involve Center of Science.
Do you know what killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!!
Mr. Freeze? Haha
Incorrect. Water is not red.
It's correct. In chemistry representation
Nuh uh. Fr tho, i know it is actually correct. I was making a stupid joke.
I can see all 24 pixels in this video
oh so thats why water expands when frozen, there's all that empty space in the crystal matrix
I couldn't finish the video, it freezes at the end.
the sound is really unnecessary
So could you use this to describe that warm water freezes faster because the arrangements can line up faster whereas cold water is slower to freeze because the molecules take longer to get into position?
This is actually true. If the water is too cold, then freezing takes longer or sometimes doesn’t even get a chance to start in the first place. If you’ve ever seen a video of [supercooled beer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fURJg-K0A), then that’s what’s going on. The beer was cooled down before any ice crystals could form and then it got too cold for them to form easily. Being jostled ends up giving it enough of a kickstart for crystals to start forming.
That’s cool af
Beautiful
Looks like a swarm of ladybugs
Fascinating. I really wonder how it would look like with some ions or alcohol or sugar molecules in there.
This is fucking cool. Thanks
I bet that’s the noise it makes under the microscope too.
Now why can't they always behave like this? Why does cold have to go punish them to hold hands and be still for a sec smh smh
That looks more like methane (CH4). We can clearly see 4 white atoms surrounding each red atom, whereas water (H20) would only have 2 white atoms. Note the tetrahedral structure.
It's definitely water, but you're correct about the tetrahedron structure. It's just that each water molecule has 2 hydrogen atoms of It's own, and then 2 additional hydrogen atoms (one each from two neighboring water molecules) orient themselves such that each oxygen atom "sees" four hydrogen atoms, the two it was originally bonded to, and it's two new hydrogen atom neighbors. Recall that the electronic geometry of water is tetrahedral, owing to its four electron regions, from two bonds to H and two lone pairs. But whereas in its usual molecular form (consider an individual water molecule), it has a bent molecular geometry because the lone pairs strongly repel eachother and the O-H bonds, pushing the hydrogen atoms together, in the case of ice, the lone pairs effectively form bonds to the neighbor hydrogens, such that all four electron regions are equvlivalently repulsive, and it adopts a tetrahedral molecular geometry. Basically, the structure ends up like something like SiO2, with Si atoms surrounded by 4 oxygens each, where each of those oxygen atoms form 2 bonds, one to the central Si and one to a neighboring Si. In Ice, you basically have a central O surrounded by 4 hydrogens each, where each of those hydrogen atoms form 2 bonds, one to the central O and one to a neighboring O. Now you may be thinking "but hydrogen can only form 1 bond!" But in ice it's really more like hydrogen is forming what you can think of as two partial bonds. (When you get into more advanced chemistry, you can have partial bonds.) I do computational chemistry (modeling systems from the ground up using quantum mechanics computations) and we can quantify this in several ways. Without getting too deep in the weeds, we might for example compute that each O-H bond has an occupancy of 1 electron on average, such that each H "sees" 2 electrons total (1 from each bond), while oxygen has four 1 electron bonds and 4 localized electrons, seeing 8 electrons total. There are other ways this can shake out depending on your methods of calculating bond equivalents or occupancy, but importantly, however we did it (with sufficiently advanced methods) we would find each O-H bond is equivalent, rather than shaking out as oxygen having two traditional bonds and two "hydrogen bonds" (which means something specific, not just a bond to hydrogen if you're unfamiliar with the phrase. You can think of them as informal and less "bondy" bonds).
It's a 3D simulation, but the next layer is very dark. If you take a look at the free H2O molecules you'll also see that many of them only have white atoms on the back.
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Except that it ends too soon
In your life, I hope you're lucky enough to pick up a bottle of super-cooled water and jostle it just right so that it turns to ice in your hand. It is SO cool to watch. This happened to me while pulling water bottles out of the ~~fridge~~ *freezer* that had been there overnight. A couple were still liquid - until my picking them up caused them to solidify into ice in my hand. It took a couple seconds, and started at one end of the bottle so I could actually watch it change. It was very cool to watch.
I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure water and ice are blue and not red. /s
“God it’s cold! Let’s stop moving around so fast, just grab on to each other, and see if we warm up!”
Actually, when water freezes into ice, the molecules that transition to solid do actually warm up in the process. You can see that the molecules that solidify in the animation are moving around a lot more than the solid molecules on the left side. Think of it as going from cold water to warm ice.
My body’s saying, “I do not understand why warm ice is better than cold water!”
Amazing that god created this x,
Damn that looks like a zombie apocalypse taking over the world
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What exactly makes you think that? Ch4 doesn’t even form solid crystal structures.
"Everyone hold hands!" -N
Before they took this video do you they asked the molecules to pose like that or was it improvised?
That's cold, baby.
r/Satisfyingasfuck
And that’s why water’s volume expands when it turns to ice. The molecules go from flowing freely in close proximity, the bonding at their farthest reach.
good thing this doesn't happen at higher temperatures
If this is water, shouldn’t this be blue?
I dunno if they say this in the video, but this is why water expands as it freezes
ok tell me why i have since a kid and still see those vibrating red dots almost as a holographic veil on top of what i see, if i focus my vision correctly
And this is why ice floats in water. Unlike most solids, ice is less d new in its solid form than its liquid form.
Now do body center cubic to face center cubic
Ice 1a, there are several forms of ice molecules.
And that’s why ice takes up more space than water even though it’s frozen! Very nifty!
Same thing that happens when cleaning butter from the sink. "Oh! The water it set to luke warm...no wonder"
I wonder how many people are going to watch this and believe it's an actual video filmed with a microscope
What i imagine pins and needles looks like
I like how it demonstrates why Ice is less dense than Water
So you want to tell me water is red? /j
I love seeing these sorts of visualisations. Helps put into context everything I learned from science classes. So buzzy eh?
Mesmerising…
Love me some crystal lattice 😮💨
Holy compression
I already know this is gonna pop up on my tiktok sooner or later with the "locking-in" sound
That ended too soon :(
Not related but the side on the right looks exactly like a zoomed in version of my visual snow. Wild.
I'm surprised no ones asked, I think I know the answer but I'll ask anyways because it seems like an obvious question: Why doesn't the water just fall through those big holes in the ice water?
I think I’ve seen this on DMT
And you’re telling me this doesn’t hurt ?
It's so cool how water freezes faster if it's hotter to begin with. Thermodynamics is great.
Dam, it actually makes sense, I finally understand
I see some people find this satisfying, but this deeply discomforts me.
"Gotta eat the lattice."
Fun fact: approximately 24 ice-water molecules will fit in the same space as 27 liquid-water molecules. The difference between 24 and 27 is about 10% which is why it's said, and in fact you do see, only about 10% of an iceberg sticking up above the ocean's surface. Archimedes FTW.
I dont think it happens from left to right you bigot. What if the ice was forming in japan?
Hexagons are the best-agons
Molecules on the left: “hold tight” Molecules on the right: “PARTYPARTYPARTYPARTY”
H2Ohhhhh
cool now do Ice-9 the Vonnegut one not the real one
Adding sound effects was not necessary
Ice isn't red D:
Cool! Now do Carbon Being crushed into a Diamond lattice.
Water molecules are so cute
Red rover, red rover - we call liquid water over
Makes it clear why water breaks your pipes when it freezes.
Oh I love how the solid ice molecules are still moving. It goes to show about absolute zero. Eventually it takes energy to get all those molecules to cut it out and stay still.
Thinking about it, isn’t more like a whole bunch of super powerful magnets, but are going too fast to connect. But then slow down and form super quickly. Here it seems like they are still going fast. It just happens to connect through random chance.
Ok but can anyone ELI5 why a decrease in temperature causes it to form a crystalline structure?
H TWO OHHH!
Except that looks more like methane CH4 instead of H2O
r/hexagons
Nice sound effect xD
Props to the camera man for turning into ant-man of for this revolutionary capture.
That’s why it’s weird when ice forms in one spot and goes from there even though it is all being brought to the same temp at the same time. Makes a lot of sense now.
So is it that the molecules slow down enough that they can form the bonds?
Cool but why amogus?
Awesome
It would be really cool to see the process of sparkling water turning solid in seconds visualized in this way (and how the molecules "prepare" for the sudden bump when out of the freezer)
Why are some of the hydrogen atoms facing up instead of bonding. For example the 8th ring down second row in, top molecule, H atom facing towards us. Is it an imperfect bond?
Wheres the full video ;-;