Is it Possible to Boil Powdered Water?

okay everyone today we're going to be seeing if it's actually possible to boil dry water the way you make it is basically you just mix water with a little tiny bit of fume silica and the fume silica is this very light powder and it's also hydrophobic so that when you mix them together like in a blender you turn it up really high mix it together and it forms tiny little droplets of water that can't recombine back together because the fumed silica coats those tiny little drops of water so what you end up with something that looks like a powder but is actually more of a liquid and all of the white you see isn't actually solid powder but there are actually tiny little droplets of water that are just coated by this fume silica so I showed you this in the previous video and I got a lot of questions about the properties of this dry water one question that stuck out to me that I'd like to know the answer to is can you actually boil dry water because technically you haven't changed the physical properties of it all you've done is separate the tiny little droplets so they can't combine back together and also what does it even look like for a dry liquid to boil can it form bubbles does it actually just perform like a powder and kind of just steam up what does it look like so let's go ahead and boil some dry water and see what happens okay so this is our water that we're going to turn into dry water so now I'm just going to blend up the water so that we can get it dispersed into tiny little droplets and then I'll add the fumed silica that's going to keep those tiny little droplets separate okay so I think we got the right consistency now now let's try to boil it and see what happens okay let's see what this looks like that's so weird okay here's our dry water see how this looks like a liquid in here we'll look at it when I touch it now it looks more like a powder but it splashes in everything like a liquid this is the weirdest crossover ever now the reason it's white is not because the fume silica that we added to it is white but actually because those tiny little droplets of water are all staying separate and they scatter light so no longer does the light just come straight through the water but it actually gets refracted in every different direction okay let's start boiling this okay let's see what temperature this is now it's not going to be able to spread the heat as quickly because there's not going to be any convection able to happen so the way water can heat up so easily normally when it's boiling is it creates a convection current it heats up at the bottom and it rises so it goes to the top and it creates the circulation but you can see that this powder isn't going to be able to move very easily at all so water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit or a hundred degrees Celsius so the bulk of it is only 127 degrees Fahrenheit or 52 degrees Celsius but it looks like there's already some movement happening as if as if it's trying to boil so there's probably some hot pockets in here because like I said it can't transfer the heat everywhere very easily okay whereas 79 degrees Celsius I'm seeing some steam forming now so it's weird it's not actually boiling it's kind of just blowing steam out the sides and you can actually see the powderized fumed silica coming up so you can see it's just forming a powder again an actual powder so 99.7 is actually the boiling temperature of my elevation here very near sea level okay so we're at boiling temperature right now so I don't actually see any bubbles forming okay let's turn up the heat a little oh I see some actual bubbles forming there it's boiling look we're boiling a powder so look we're actually boiling a powder and it's creating this kind of snowfall around me okay so it's created this snow in the air now so look what's happening so it's actually boiling this is so bizarre okay should I touch it [Music] okay so this basically filmed my entire garage with this fumed silica which I don't want to breathe because it absorbs moisture from the lens so let's see what this actually looks like now that I boiled it okay so here's what the boiled look here's what the boiled dry water looks like so it's actually still it's actually still pretty liquidy I thought it would actually lose more water than it did you can see the steam come off it when I pick it up and let it air out a little bit okay so it looks like you can actually boil dry water that was actually pretty weird to see a powder look like a powder boiling so it was crazy you could see the steam coming off of it and as the water evaporated from it a lot of times it would take up the fume silica with it and the water the water droplet would evaporate completely and then it was like it was snowing in my garage with this fume silica so I'm surprised it was able to boil and it was actually able to boil very close to boiling temperature of water so that means that the fumed silica didn't actually interfere with it that much it probably did raise the boiling temperature a little bit but overall it was about the boiling temperature of water but that's actually really weird to think about you could use boiling dry water to boil stuff without it actually getting wet well thanks for watching another episode of the action lab I hope you enjoyed it if you did remember to subscribe and remember to hit the bell button so that you can be notified with my latest videos out and head over to the action lab comm to check out the action lab subscription box we're now starting to ship the second subscription box and we're actually having a sell right now if you bundle both boxes at the same time and you get the vacuum chamber box and the self pouring liquid box then you only pay $59 for both of them together so head over to the action lab comm to check that out today and thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time

Channel: The Action Lab

Views: 197,475

Keywords: dry liquid, powderized water, dry water, the action lab, vacuum chamber, TKOR, what happens, the king of random, science experiment, action, lab, science, fumed silica, silica, how to, action lab, venus fly trap, hydraulic press, iron man, stretch armstrong, neutron star, home science, blackest black, self pouring, vac man, cool science, foil ball, black 3.0, is water wet, science experiments, how to make, liquid nitrogen, iron man suit, science tricks, 32000 lumen

Id: P240-XXEj00

Length: 8min 12sec (492 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2019