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Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Ice cold outside, quot;hot ice ...
Sodium acetate is such a useful little chemical. Not only is it responsible for the awesome flavor of salt and vinegar potato chips, but it also produces the heat in those little reusable hand and foot warmers you can buy at outdoor stores. Plus—when it's just too damn cold outside and you'd rather spend the day indoors—the same reaction that keeps your fingers and toes toasty can also be used for fun at-home art projects.
You can buy sodium acetate online, but all the real Cool Kids are making it themselves .
I came back to my dorm from spring break or something and when I took my full brita pitcher out of the fridge it did the exact same thing as the first experiment. I stood there complete dumbfounded as the entire thing slowly froze solid. I was the first person back from break so nobody was there to show. I wonder now if someone slipped some sodium acetate in it or if there was some weird cross contamination with chips or Boston's water.
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