Cold Weather Science

What will happen when room temperature water (20 degrees Celcius) or boiling water (100 degrees Celcius) is thrown up in the air in -30 degree Celcius weather?

WARNING: Do not try this at home...boiling water is risky

Thank you to Mr. Moses for showing this to many students today!

We began by making hypotheses...

Note:

• There were three sizes of water streams: thin or narrow, cap width, and frying pan width
• The experiment was done using room temperature first and then boiling water (in all 3 widths)

Here is what it looked like with a frying pan of boiling water.

Who can explain why this happened?

I look forward to more conversation in class tomorrow!