h a l f b a k e r yContrary to popular belief
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Put a small lead ball covered with plastic in with the water when you make ice cubes. The ice cubes will sink to the bottom of your drink.
It's a funny surprise for your guests, a converstaion piece, an icebreaker.
Also it keeps the ice from your lips making the drinking easier.
Heavy Water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water
Deuterium [csea, Jul 24 2011]
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Is it possible to make a sugar solution which can be
frozen to make heavier-than-water ice cube? |
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Oooh! Oooh! I just checked, and the density of
pure ethanol is 0.79. Water is 1.0, and ice is 0.92. |
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So, ordinary ice-cubes should sink in a drink which is
50% ethanol (100 proof) or above. I am going to try
this in the lab. |
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Or just make them out of heavy water. |
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Could simply be made with heavy water [link] in
which deuterium replaces the normal Hydrogen. A
bit pricey, but certainly an ice-breaker. |
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(oops, just saw that [nick_n_uit] beat me to it.) |
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Dry ice works just fine.
muhaha |
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+ for MB's veiled alcoholism! |
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[MB], i was thinking sugar glass but either way it
would sweeten the drink, which is undesirable.
I'm
also wondering about using oxygen eighteen with
deuterium and freezing it into a denser form than
the kind of water ice wherewith we usually come
into contact. I think some exotic types of ice are
stable on the surface of this planet, but i could be
wrong. |
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Edit: Unfeasible that there would be stable
denser types of ice made of ordinary water, but
deuterated water with heavy oxygen is twenty-
two percent heavier, so frozen it would be
heavier than water at the latter's densest point. |
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Only if you've also got unbreakable teeth. |
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Embed a little chain in each cube, with the free end attached to a heavy metal weight or anchor. |
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