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The freezing point will depend on the alcohol content. My guess is that we're looking about around 80 proof, that is, 40% alcohol. ... Most kitchen freezers won't go that low. But you should be able to freeze vodka or Jaegermeister with dry ice, which is at a temperature of about -100°C.
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The easy answer to your question is because alcohol's freezing point is -117 degrees and water's freezing point is 0 degrees. Your refrigerator doesn't get cold enough to freeze alcohol. A better answer is motion.
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Vodka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Entry in the Material Safety Data Sheet HyperGlossary at ILPI. ... Freezing point is the temperature at which a liquid becomes a solid at normal atmospheric pressure. Alternatively, a melting point is the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure.
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Yes, adding alcohol to water will lower its freezing point, just as adding salt will. Furthermore, alcohols ARE forced out of freezing ice, just as salts and other solutes are. In fact, that property of water/alcohol mixtures provides another way to increase the alcohol content of some fermented beverages.
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The point of denaturing alcohol is that ethanol has usefulness outside of consumption for intoxicating effects. These other uses need not bear excise taxes for beer, wine and liquors, so it is altered to preclude its being diverted to this sort of use.
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Making vodka ... Drinking vodka - East vs West ... Origins of vodka...
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