Can you freeze alcohol into ice cubes?

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asked Feb 20, 2024 in Other-Home/Garden by EastonXDD (1,700 points)
Can you freeze alcohol into ice cubes?

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answered Feb 9 by Navigirl (1,700 points)
You can freeze alcohol into ice cubes.

Frozen alcohol ice cubes are called boozy ice balls.

Freezing the alcohol can also add flavor and alcohol to cocktails without diluting them much.

To make alcoholic ice cubes add enough water to lower the alcohol by volume and make sure that at least two thirds of the ice cube base is non alcoholic.

Keep the alcohol mixture to around 25 percent to 30 percent alcohol by volume.

The reason why ice cubes evaporate in the freezer is due to a process called sublimation.

Sublimation is where the water in the ice cubes or ice transitions directly from a solid which is ice to a gas which is water vapor and it does this without first melting into a liquid.

The sublimation and the ice cubes evaporating in the freezer happens as a result of the cold, dry air that is circulating within your freezer compartment.

Essentially your ice cubes molecules gain enough energy to be able to escape into the air as vapor.

It's normal for the ice cubes to shrink and evaporate in the freezer and the dryer the air in your freezer the faster the sublimation occurs.

The inside of a freezer is very dry and the refrigeration process also removes moisture from the air.

You can refreeze ice cubes and other ice as many times as you want to refreeze them.

Ice cubes are just water that has been frozen to create the ice cubes from water.

The ice cubes can be refrozen several times and will not affect the ice cubes at all.

When I take out some ice cubes from my ice cube tray I fill the ice cube tray back with water in place of the ice cubes and put it right back in the freezer so I always have ice cubes available.

The water turns into ice cubes through freezing where the liquid water cools down and the water molecules also slow down.

As the water molecules slow down due to freezing the water molecules arrange themselves into a rigid and crystalline structure and forms ice.

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