How long does it take cold water to freeze?

Answer 1

It may take any time depending on its mass and temperature as well as surrounding environmental temperature (other factors that may be involved are movement or surface area). Generally speaking, it takes less time to freeze as each of those three conditions is reduced (there is an odd area where really, really hot water freezes slightly faster than really hot water).

Be the scientist and try it out! If you put a bottle of warm water into a deep freeze at say minus 12°C it would take several hours for the water to chill then freeze, if you put the same bottle in a flask of liquid nitrogen it would freeze almost instantly.

Answer 2

if it is frezzing like -1 it would take 1hour and 30mins if it was colder id say -5 20 mins

A:There are many factors to take into account.

The temperature outside.

How much water.

Do you mean freeze solid, or just glaze over

Thermal conductivity, thermal sinks.

Is the water pure?

etc.

A large lake might take several days of weather below 0°F (-15°C) before it starts freezing along the shore, and a few more days until the center freezes. It may never freeze solid through to the bottom of the lake.

A few drops of water from an eye dropper dropped onto a heavy copper sheet that has been sitting outside might freeze instantly, even if the temperature is relatively close to freezing. But, the same drops dropped on to some foam rubbers might take significantly longer.

And, take two identical cups of water, except one is fresh water, and one is a saturated salt solution. Then the salt water would likely require more time and colder weather to freeze.

Answer 3

The answer depends on a few variables including how much water you have, the temperature of the water before it's put in the freezer and what temperature is the freezer set at. A small amount of water will freeze faster than a large amount, hot water will freeze faster than room temperature water and water will freeze faster at 10 degrees fahrenheit than at 32 degrees fahrenheit.

Answer 4

That depends on the current temperature of the water.

Answer 5

Put it the water in the freezer and see how long it takes to freeze longer

Answer 6

This depends on: initial temperature of the water, temperature of the freezer, volume of water, container of water, purity of water.

Answer 7

There isn't a way to figure this out, We need to know:

1. How cold the freezer is.

2. How much water there is in the container

Answer 8

it depends on the temperature around the water that would determine how long it would take to freeze there isn't one specific temp.

Answer 9

About 6-7 hours in the fridge.