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Most foods you'd want to freeze are high in water, which expands by 4% when it freezes, so they are talking about placing the food product in a vessel that prev
by 6nf 5y ago
Most foods you'd want to freeze are high in water, which expands by 4% when it freezes, so they are talking about placing the food product in a vessel that prevents that expansion (and increasing the pressure instead)
- unwind 5y agoThe expansion is actually more than double that, 9% is the figure I've commonly seen. See for instance Wikipedia [1]: An unusual property of water is that its solid form—ice frozen at atmospheric pressure—is approximately 8.3% less dense than its liquid form; this is equivalent to a volumetric expansion of 9%. The "4" might be coming from the temperature at which water's density is the largest, which happens at 4 degrees Celsius. Water is weird. :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Physical_properties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Physical_properties