{"id":208751,"date":"2025-03-15T05:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/preventing-freezer-bottle-explosions-new-insights-into-ice-crystallization-and-pressure"},"modified":"2025-03-15T05:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:18:20","slug":"preventing-freezer-bottle-explosions-new-insights-into-ice-crystallization-and-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/preventing-freezer-bottle-explosions-new-insights-into-ice-crystallization-and-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Preventing freezer bottle explosions: New insights into ice crystallization and pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/preventing-freezer-bottle-explosions-new-insights-into-ice-crystallization-and-pressure.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever left a bottle of liquid in the freezer, only to find it cracked or shattered? To save you from tedious freezer cleanups, researchers at the University of Amsterdam have investigated why this happens, and how to prevent it. They discovered that while the liquid is freezing, pockets of liquid can get trapped inside the ice. When these pockets eventually freeze, the sudden expansion creates extreme pressure\u2014enough to break glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNewton had an apple fall on his head. I found my freezer full of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/broken+glass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">broken glass<\/a>,\u201d says Menno Demmenie, first author of the new study that was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-025-86117-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>He continues, \u201cThe usual explanation for frost damage is that water expands when it freezes, but this does not explain why half-filled bottles also burst in our freezers. Our work addresses how ice can break a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bottle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bottle<\/a> even when it has plenty of space to expand into.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever left a bottle of liquid in the freezer, only to find it cracked or shattered? To save you from tedious freezer cleanups, researchers at the University of Amsterdam have investigated why this happens, and how to prevent it. They discovered that while the liquid is freezing, pockets of liquid can get trapped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}