Law-breaking liquid defies the rules

[Lefteris_D]

Ok, I know this is old but it is intresting.

Physicists in France have discovered a liquid that "freezes" when it is heated. Marie Plazanet and colleagues at the Université Joseph Fourier and the Institut Laue-Langevin, both in Grenoble, found that a simple solution composed of two organic compounds becomes a solid when it is heated to temperatures between 45 and 75°C, and becomes a liquid when cooled again. The team says that hydrogen bonds are responsible for this novel behaviour (M Plazanet et al. 2004 J. Chem. Phys 121 5031).

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/9/15/1

 

[onewecallgod]

damn...thats cool....

 

[Lefteris_D]

It's breaking every single physics law I learned at school

 

[montpics]

Errr, I'm still not an expert in Chemist.....

 

[Zach]

If you really want to know wtf it means, I say go ask the guys in the water / extreme cooling section at the overclockers forum.

too many smart people for comfort

http://www.ocforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6

 

[belmont]

I study nuclear physics in the university here and I can tell you that there are many things unclarified yet.

This strange thing is explained by Quantum Mechanics.This area is only teached in university and covers what happens inside or "near" the atom where the Classical physics (Newton etc) we learn at school has errors.

 

[Fable]

lol I use good ol' air cooling.

 

[donkeyknob]

this is far too intelectual for 98% of the members here, including me becaues i cant even spell intelectual. just thinking about this gives me a headache

 

[onewecallgod]

i actually read the article and i actually kind of understand what it does lol. (yay for chemistry 1 class)

 

[Zach]

I never got to take them classes. Maybe one day