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How to make Hot Ice!!! Crazy

video How to make Hot Ice!!! Crazy

crazy experiment turning a liquid to a solid with just a touch.. amazing
Costs $8 for 500 grams of sodium accitate.

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Oct 3, 2011. 3:39 PMK5trailrunner says:

if you wait for it to cool compleatly you can reboil the sodium acetate crystals and they will turn back to a clear watter like substance. then if you want you can make the reaction and hardning happen over and over again. if you get really board seal some of the liquid in a baggy with a peice of dull tin and you can make your self hand warmers that you can use over and over agian, just boil to recharge :)

Aug 18, 2011. 9:50 PMJamez Britton says:

Wickidness!

Feb 12, 2011. 4:30 AMjanrain says:

pls. reply asap...........

Feb 12, 2011. 4:30 AMjanrain says:

those this "hot ice" melt easily? because i'm bringing to school on monday for our chemistry project......just asking

pls. reply.........

Jul 10, 2009. 11:03 AMpeace-to-earth says:

This is sweet! I have so got to try this. "Hey, Mom, look what I made!!! " LOL (:

Jun 6, 2009. 12:51 AMGeekFans says:

good

Jan 1, 2009. 11:18 AM

Rock Soldier says:

is it just me, or does the tallest figure in the sculpture look like Marge Simpson with shorter hair?

Jun 1, 2009. 1:54 PMfwjs28 says:

no, they all look like people especially the tallest...

Apr 1, 2009. 5:11 PMbigfootduck says:

hey! i just realized that this is the stuff we learned about in science class the other day! now i know what u mean by "its in hand warmers". i was thinking of the wrong kind of hand warmers.

Mar 5, 2009. 8:50 PMbigfootduck says:

what if instead of just touching it, u put your finger all the way inside the try and kept it there. would it get stuck? and inside of lots of handwarmers is that black powder. is that it?

Mar 31, 2009. 10:11 PMwax54 says:

do you really think black powder would be in the topsy turby life of a hand warmer XP

Apr 1, 2009. 5:09 PMbigfootduck says:

lol thats not what i meant. theres powder that is the color black. not black powder XD

Jan 4, 2009. 12:20 PMwax54 says:

hey dose anyone know why i can only find 20$ for 500 grams not 8$ :,(

Mar 30, 2009. 10:05 AMXtopher420 says:

I bought a pound of Sodium Acetate on Ebay for only $5.00

Feb 11, 2009. 5:32 PMmortar654 says:

does anyone know the measurements for hot ice cant seem to find it ..thanks

Feb 9, 2009. 3:59 PMJacktop says:

im totaly doing this for my science fair progect!!!

Apr 27, 2008. 8:18 AMvince086 says:

with one is better Sodium Acetate ANHYDROUS or Sodium Acetate trihydrate ???? thank you this is so cool

Dec 30, 2008. 8:39 AMmarine12320 says:

I would guess Sodium Acetate Trihydrate.

Dec 30, 2008. 9:23 AMvince086 says:

thanks, will get some asap

Aug 9, 2008. 4:58 PMcornboy3 says:

Can you eat this stuff? :D that would be so awesome!!!

Dec 30, 2008. 8:37 AMmarine12320 says:

Well, sodium acetate is used as a flavoring in salt and vinegar chips, but i still wouldn't recommend eating it, even if it is 99.9% pure.

Sep 25, 2008. 5:44 AMshloveko says:

Apparently no

Sep 25, 2008. 9:29 AMcornboy3 says:

Aww :(

Dec 15, 2008. 8:41 AMknex maddo says:

can you use baking soda? please reply A.S.A.P thanks

Dec 18, 2008. 11:09 AMknex maddo says:

please reply!

Dec 30, 2008. 8:37 AMmarine12320 says:

Nov 29, 2008. 8:09 AMlillexi428 says:

can u use baking soda

Jun 17, 2008. 9:58 PMsethie says:

No body listen to this guy I spent 7 hours trying to do this and nothing happened but my house smelling like vinegar. Seth Blackburn, out

Sep 25, 2008. 5:45 AMshloveko says:

did you use refined sodium acetate or a crude quality? you want something around 99% for dense crystals like in the vid...

Jun 18, 2008. 9:45 PMagdollison says:

also i saw this in popular science

Feb 18, 2008. 6:32 AMneonsk8er says:

is sodium acetate the same as ghost crystals?

Jan 24, 2008. 7:25 PMhelldaddy1 says:

thats sweet

Jan 1, 2008. 9:40 PMBran says:

I recognize the burner! It's from "shootingeggs" on Metacafe. 100% sure.

Jan 5, 2008. 6:26 PM

keng says:

well yeah you can tell from the burner and the giant slide at the end that says "shooting eggs".

Jan 1, 2008. 10:34 PMeLeet says:

Yeah- it's the exact same video... they didn't even bother changing the music :-/

Jan 2, 2008. 7:56 AMoneandonlykenny (author) says:

yeah it is, its a good vid so i posted it on here. it wasnt on here so i thought it should be

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Jan 2, 2008. 2:43 PM

Kiteman says:

Since this isn't your own video, it would have been more appropriate to add it to the Forums

Jan 2, 2008. 4:22 AMlieuwe says:

yeah its from metacafe!, at the end when he is sculpting look just above the youtube logo, NOT cool

Jan 1, 2008. 8:49 PMeLeet says:

This is somebody else's video... I'm sure you're not the original author because you'd be embedding the video from Metacafe, as opposed to ripping it, and rehosting ontoy our own youtube account... not cool o.o

Jan 1, 2008. 9:04 PMdbarak says:

"accitate" Can't spell, either.

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