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12-29-17 | 05:21 PM

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cyccommute

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From: Denver, CO

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You've probably experienced supercooling of the water. If there is a lack of nucleation sites in the water, you can cool the water below its freezing point without the liquid freezing. This usually requires very pure water in very clean vessels. This video shows how it can be done

The agitation of riding should have prevented the supercooling but you may have just gotten lucky.

On a side note, if you want to put in a ° (degrees) symbol, you can use shift/option/8 on a Mac keyboard or use ALT + 0176 on the number keypad on your keyboard. You can find all kinds of other alt keys here

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