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Hot Ice in Our Everyday Liquids
Dakota, Sebastian
Hot Ice In Our Everyday Liquids

Purpose:
The purpose of the experiment is to see if other super
saturated substances will crystalize the same way
Sodium Acetate crystalizes with Sodium Acetate
Trihydrate thus creating hot ice.
Hypothesis:
Our hypothesis is that the Sodium Acetate will
crystalize and create Sodium Acetate Trihydrate. The
other liquids will not crystalize the same way as
Sodium Acetate due to the fact that the other liquids
have different chemical structures producing a different
reaction.
Materials:
Weigh scale
Hot plate
50mL of Gatorade
60 mL of Water approximately
50mL of 1% White Milk
2 cups of sugar
4 250mL beakers
Stirring rod
Procedure:
1. Get four 250ml beakers
2. Weigh out about 6 grams of Sodium Acetate into
one of the beakers
3. Add about 4 mL of water to the beaker
4. Put the beaker on a hot plate, boil and stir
constantly until all crystals of sodium acetate
dissolve.
5. Remove the beaker from the heat and let it cool
slowly by putting it into cold water making sure not
to disturb it until the beaker is at room
temperature. BE GENTLE
6. Meanwhile, fill the a beaker with 50ml of 1% Milk,
another with 50ml of Gatorade and the last beaker
with 50ml of water.
7. Now fill the beakers, except the beaker with sodium
acetate, with sugar until it doesnt dissolve any
more.
8. Boil all three of the substances until the sugar
disappears, stirring constantly while the liquids boil.
9. Once the sodium acetate is cooled to room
temperature along with all of the other liquids, drop
a pinch of Sodium Acetate into all four beakers and
record your results.
Substances:
Did it crystalize?
What else did you

see?
Sodium Acetate
Yes
Gatorade
No
Milk
No
Water
No
There were
bubbles in the
bottom of the
flask when it was
crystalized.
The Sodium
Acetate just sank.
The Sodium
Acetate sank like
it did in the
Gatorade.
The Sodium
Acetate sank just
like the others
did.
Questions:
Does Sodium Acetate crystallize in other substances?
No it does not. You may have to alter or change the
procedure in order for it to crystallize.
Did anything odd occur? If so, what happened?
When the Sodium Acetate crystallized there were bubbles

but they were frozen. My thought on it is that the bubbles
are from the solution boiling and it froze so fast that it
even froze the bubbles.
Did you expect to get the results you got?
No I did not. I didnt expect the Sodium Acetate to freeze
as quickly as it did. I was expecting the other liquids to
not crystallize due to their chemical structure.
Was it an interesting experiment?

It was interesting. It was cool to experience the feeling of
hot ice and to see it actually form.
Conclusion: Our goal was to at least get the Sodium

Acetate to form and make Sodium Acetate Trihydrate. We
did not get the same crystallization in the other liquids as
we were hoping we might get. The overall conclusion is
that Sodium Acetate does not crystallize in our everyday
liquids in the way we conducted the experiment. The
Sodium Acetate started to freeze as soon as we started to
move it or put it in the water. This occurred either by
moving it or the rapid change of temperature from hot to
cold. Any disturbance caused and forced the reaction. If
we were to get the result we wanted, we would have had
to cover the solution, let it cool on its own, come back the
next day, disturb the solution and hopefully get the
results we want. Now the reason it didn't start
crystallizing in the other liquids is because they are made

out of different amount of sugars, salts etc. What we
would have done instead is to boil down Sodium Acetate
with the other liquids in it, let it cool and see if we would
have achieved the same results.
Bibliography
References
How to Make Hot Ice. (n.d.). Retrieved December 18, 2014, from
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Hot-Ice
How to Make Hot Ice - The Complete Guide. (n.d.). Retrieved December 18, 2014, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxk3OZWq9Ls
Make Hot Ice - The Complete Guide. (n.d.). Retrieved December 18, 2014, from
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Hot-Ice-The-Complete-Guide/
Steve Spangler Science. (n.d.). Retrieved December 18, 2014, from
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/instant-hot-ice

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Hot Ice In Our Everyday Liquids

What else did you

When the Sodium Acetate crystallized there were bubbles

Was it an interesting experiment?

Conclusion: Our goal was to at least get the Sodium

crystallizing in the other liquids is because they are made

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