Jan 20 2011Ashes To Ashes, Hot Water To...Dust?
Note: Video that you may have already seen is after the jump.
Seen here looking colder than an Antarctic witch's nips, Youtube user samantha683 prepares to throw a cupful of boiling water into the -30°C (-22°F) air and show you what happens. SPOILER: she accidentally hits the cameraman and melts his face off. No, no she doesn't. The water just instantly turns to dust. Not real dust though because real dust is mostly dead skin cells and fly @$$holes -- it just looks like dust. And you know what else looks like dust? Nothing, it's pretty unique. Belly button lint isn't though, which is how I managed to pack my navel with dingleberries and convince my girlfriend to pick them out.
Hit the jump and watch the magic in action.
Youtube
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The Most Fun You Can Have With Boiling Water [gizmodo]
Thanks to Sherri, who tried the same thing with a gallon of chocolate milk with far less impressive results. DAMMIT I COULD HAVE DRANK THAT!
Reader Comments
1. manes - January 20, 2011 12:31 PM
aklsdfjoiewjfoii
2. gb - January 20, 2011 12:36 PM
OMFG FIRST FIRST
3. FXDBDN - January 20, 2011 12:36 PM
SECOND SECOND
4. SteveTheHair - January 20, 2011 12:38 PM
@2 haha you failed.
Anyway.... Kinda cool, but not as cool as me jupming on a frozen lake.... All 16 stone of me...
5. Jonathan - January 20, 2011 12:39 PM
Cute accents.
6. Mutt - January 20, 2011 12:40 PM
Now that's effing COLD! Time to hibernate.
@2, loser.
7. http://www.ConfessionsOfAManwhore.com - January 20, 2011 12:42 PM
omg hide it from coke fiends
8. Alexandra♀ - January 20, 2011 12:46 PM
Cool! I wanna do that! Oh, wait... I'm in the Caribbean and it's F-ing hot! >.<
9. josh - January 20, 2011 1:03 PM
I guess that's evaporation
10. CustomJ - January 20, 2011 1:03 PM
I've done that with a juug of heated kum....... it was like a mushroom cloud.
11. Trololol <3 Canada - January 20, 2011 1:12 PM
Yay Canada! ^w^ I work outside at the Ottawa air port and it sucks when its that cold, lol, but whatever, still love it here!
12. lovelyjubbley - January 20, 2011 1:22 PM
It doesn't evaporate, it's so cold out that the hot water instantly freezes into snow like substance (you see it fall) the heat causes all the steam to go up like that
13. ciao - January 20, 2011 1:28 PM
That looks really fun, I might try that when it gets really really cold here.
14. Louis - January 20, 2011 1:40 PM
Defies nature... devil involvement... sarah palin
Louis of http://aprettyage.blogspot.com/
15. red pill junkie - January 20, 2011 1:44 PM
@12 that explanation would've made the video cooler —um, duster? snowier?
16. Taki - January 20, 2011 1:52 PM
Cool!
17. Closet Nerd - January 20, 2011 1:55 PM
That is AWESOME!!!!!
Definition of "AWESOME":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rYT0YvQ3hs
..... just sayin
18. alyx - January 20, 2011 2:07 PM
why on earth isn't she wearing gloves/face mask/etc in that sort of temperature?
19. mari - January 20, 2011 2:16 PM
She almost has Sub-Zero powers!
20. Lando_33 - January 20, 2011 2:23 PM
@18 Because she's Canadian, and we're hard-core, bitches. Except that Avatar guy and pretty much every musician we export. Sorry about our shitty music, guys. If it helps we don't like Nickelback, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, etc., either.
21. CinemaObsessed.com - January 20, 2011 3:00 PM
It was minus 29 celcius here in Ottawa on Monday. Wish I'd known this trick, woulda tried it out.
22. Brizzy - January 20, 2011 3:04 PM
Boiled water freezes quicker than room temperature water. Boiling is a cooling process. Room temperature water would not do this. Wait.. do you guys care?
23. Calhoon - January 20, 2011 3:32 PM
That is pretty cool. I think I might try doing that in front of a bunch of coke heads and see how many of them will go ape shit and try to snort it in mid air lol!
24. sexygeek - January 20, 2011 4:16 PM
Yeah us Canadians only dress warmer when it hits -40 before that is almost shorts weather
25. Anti-Hero! - January 20, 2011 4:22 PM
Just threw Boiling water in the Air and i JIZZED IN MY PANTS!
26. Cid - January 20, 2011 4:27 PM
@4
use a real measurement. How many pounds is a stone?
27. poopface - January 20, 2011 4:49 PM
TRIPPLE POOF ALL THE WAY! SO INTENSE! WHAT DOSE IT MEAN?
28. Olpol - January 20, 2011 5:01 PM
@26 Use a real measurement - the metric system. Fucking pounds are medieval.
29. Kenny - January 20, 2011 5:03 PM
Now that's effin cold! Neat trick tho... I would be kinda scared to do that where I live. If I did something like that I would have a large flock of coke heads show up and start snorting the ground and stuff thinking I just tossed a bunch of powdered cocaine up in the air. Those coke heads would act exactly like how a flock of birds would if you threw bread crumbs on the ground. It would be funny to see coke heads do that I guess until they figured out it wasn't coke and get pissed and stab me or something.
30. The Herdsman - January 20, 2011 5:33 PM
One of the girls talking off camera sounds hot.
31. guy - January 20, 2011 7:46 PM
Dear god, I wish I could do this right now.
32. Grrambo - January 20, 2011 8:49 PM
That's scary.
Stab it! Stab it!
33. Me - January 21, 2011 12:37 AM
@20 Hey! Celine Dion is a gre-
...
Nevermind
On another note, I went outside and tried this immediately after seeing this. It is SO COOL
34. Frakle - January 21, 2011 12:55 PM
It's called a snow gun you idiots....
35. catnarok - January 21, 2011 3:41 PM
haha live in yellowknife right now was -40 this morning, and i had no idea you could do that!
36. JJtoob - January 21, 2011 4:59 PM
@34 Oh yeah!! fill a super soaker with boiling water and shoot it out!! Ooor, do hot chocolate and make instant ice scream!!!
37. basic science principles - January 21, 2011 9:47 PM
Soooooo cool!
@12
Thank you, it makes me glad that somebody pointed that out. Cause it makes no sense whatsoever for water to be injected into -30 degree air and just evaporate. If it's boiling and not already evaporating, how is sucking out ALL it's heat energy going to do it? We're definitely witnessing a freezing event.
@20 and @24
canada ftw! Ya, we're pretty hardcore like that. If we go outside in winter and boiling water *doesn't* do that, then it's totally warm enough for sunbathing
38. Sadie Vincent - January 21, 2011 10:55 PM
@18 - I'm in Edmonton, and it was -36*C here last week, and I was still in a skirt. You live somewhere with cold winters, you get used to it, and get over it.
39. JA - January 22, 2011 2:54 PM
I used to do this all the time as a kid in northern Minnesota. It only really works at around -30 and lower though.
And now I'm stuck in fricking California...land of eternal summer.
@18: I was walking to classes on campus at UND during the week that the coldest windchill ever in the Lower 48 was recorded. Face masks are for wimps.
40. zombiespherE - January 24, 2011 1:05 PM
definatley isnt evaporation...
41. El Bob - January 27, 2011 1:40 AM
The water isn't freezing, it's instantly vapourizing due to the temperature differential.
Science nazi FTW!
42. Wyrd Darcnyzz - February 2, 2011 9:25 PM
My dad in Cali complains about it only being 40 degrees out, while I'm up here in SW Minnesota, and I'm outside in the wind for all of four minutes, and I can't feel my face.