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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:54pm on 2006-04-21 under ,

I'd always imagined a glass bottle full of water "exploding" as it froze to be a sort of a slow-motion process.

Judging from the height of the splash marks inside my fridge-that-gets-confused-and-thinks-it's-a-freezer, and the distance between the top halves and bottom halves of the bottles, it appears I had seriously underestimated the violence of the phenomenon. (Perhaps the presence of sugar and carbonation (which should have lowered the freezing point, n'est-ce pas?) added to the violence?)

[livejournal.com profile] anniemal, I've got some bad news regarding your Coca-Cola Blak.

I think I got all the dribblings and glass shards up. Now to reassemble the shelves/drawers and put everything else back in ...

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posted by [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com at 07:59pm on 2006-04-21
Carbonation always makes things worse. The colder the liquid, the less carbonic acid can stay dissolved, so the more of it comes out as gaseous C02.

I'm sorry your fridge is so confused! Mine is overly aggressive, but never that bad. (Yet, anyway.)
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posted by [personal profile] gorgeousgary at 08:09pm on 2006-04-21
Wow, Coca-Cola Black's even more evil than I thought! It's actually capable of destroying one's refrigerator (or attempting to).

Must tell [livejournal.com profile] cadhla, whose description of the taste was, er, entertaining...
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posted by [identity profile] faireraven.livejournal.com at 08:17pm on 2006-04-21
After having witnessed what my brother's can of Dr. Pepper did to my mom's freezer as a child, I will say I learned that lesson without having to get in trouble for it myself. ;)

Carbon dioxide under pressure does some reeeeallly interesting things...
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posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 08:49pm on 2006-04-21
I am very sorry. I had no idea it would do that. Other bottles and cans of carbonated stuff are doing alright in there. Maybe it's the top shelf. I should've left it in the door.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:53am on 2006-04-22
Not blaming you; fridge ain't supposed to do that, you aren't used to thinking around its quirks, and we're both used to soda being in plastic bottles these days. Still a real PITA, but I blame the fridge.
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posted by [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com at 09:42pm on 2006-04-21
Owwwwwww.
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posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 12:17am on 2006-04-22
Your fridge needs a new thermostat. Not expensive and usually not hard to install (although I manage to shock myself but good, lol.)

Eggsicles were yucky -- slushy milk yummy.
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posted by [identity profile] bkleber.livejournal.com at 02:32am on 2006-04-22
As everyone else said... it's the carbonation. As the temperature of the soda drops, the saturation level of CO2 drops as well, and the liquid gives up all of its gas. Eventually, the pressure builds *REALLY* high... which normally woukldn't be a problem, except when the liquid then freezes, weakening the bottle and really letting it blow.

What's lots of fun is to take a plastic bottle with a few ounces of soda still in it, and submerge the bottom half of the bottle in a small vat of liquid nitrogen. you get to see the dissolved gas saturation leves change dramatically and I do mean dramaically :-)
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posted by [identity profile] sue-n-julia.livejournal.com at 03:12am on 2006-04-22
That sort of reminds me of fermenting quick mead. The bottle exploded with such force that:
  1. Juliana and I thought it might have been a nearby gunshot.

  2. The soda bottle inverted -- quite literally. The only part not inverted was the neck.

  3. The kitchen was drenched. We had placed the bottle (and a couple of cousins) under a table and blanket, but the cupboards 6 feet away and five feet off the floor were sticky.

We were kind of foolish, but the recipe never talked about venting and we had never brewed mead before.

S
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