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No. If your ice is cold enough (way below freezing), it's possible to chill the drink with no dilution at all.
by monochromatic 11y ago
No. If your ice is cold enough (way below freezing), it's possible to chill the drink with no dilution at all.
- mattmaroon 11y agoNo. The phase change takes as much energy as warming the ice 80C. No matter how cold the ice was some would melt, but even getting to where the dilution is minimal would require equipment you can't have at a bar. This article wasn't about a science lab.
- monochromatic 11y agoI'm not saying that you won't get a single molecule of water going into solution, but if you add a small amount of liquid to ice that's well below freezing, you really can get effectively zero melting. It will equilibrate to a temperature that's still below the freezing point of water.