I recently thought of a nice way of explaining why supercooled liquid crystalizes instantly. At least, I think I thought of it. That’s partially why I am posting this. I want you chumps to fact check me and tell me if somebody already thought of this. I explained this in terms of a rather strange phenomenon, heres the link https://youtu.be/ph8xusY3GTM
Note To Reader: I'm a physics student, this might be wrong. I’m working on my first youtube video, it will be a more in depth and general explanation of this concept. This is a test to see how much anybody cares. I’m sorry if this wasted your time haha.
Liquids and gases (called fluids when referring to each at the same time) are composed of molecules constantly running around and bumping into each other (which is why they freely move around), while solids are composed of molecules locked into place with each other, vibrating and surrounded on all sides by the other atoms of the solid. All things can change from fluids to solids (and back again) depending on the temperature of their environment. This means that temperature changes the speed of molecules in fluids. Colder temperatures result in slower moving fluids, meaning for a liquid to turn into a solid, it must first be at a temperature where all of its molecules are not moving.
When a fluid turns into a solid, all of its molecules arrange themselves in a very orderly way, especially when you compare them to how they were randomly arranged in the fluid previously. We call this process freezing. A freezer is named because it is cold enough to freeze water. If we leave a bottle of water in there long enough it will become the temperature of the freezer, which is somewhat colder than freezing. Meaning the water will be at a temperature even colder than the temperature which at which liquid water molecules do not move. However as you clearly know the water in the bottle remains a liquid.
Note To Reader: I'm a physics student, this might be wrong. I’m working on my first youtube video, it will be a more in depth and general explanation of this concept. This is a test to see how much anybody cares. I’m sorry if this wasted your time haha.
Liquids and gases (called fluids when referring to each at the same time) are composed of molecules constantly running around and bumping into each other (which is why they freely move around), while solids are composed of molecules locked into place with each other, vibrating and surrounded on all sides by the other atoms of the solid. All things can change from fluids to solids (and back again) depending on the temperature of their environment. This means that temperature changes the speed of molecules in fluids. Colder temperatures result in slower moving fluids, meaning for a liquid to turn into a solid, it must first be at a temperature where all of its molecules are not moving.
When a fluid turns into a solid, all of its molecules arrange themselves in a very orderly way, especially when you compare them to how they were randomly arranged in the fluid previously. We call this process freezing. A freezer is named because it is cold enough to freeze water. If we leave a bottle of water in there long enough it will become the temperature of the freezer, which is somewhat colder than freezing. Meaning the water will be at a temperature even colder than the temperature which at which liquid water molecules do not move. However as you clearly know the water in the bottle remains a liquid.
