[Shop-talk] Paging Mr Wizard

[Steven Trovato]

You know, that's works.

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2006-07/ice-capades

Though in this case, I'm going with the ice stuck to the glass theory.

-Steve

At 12:24 PM 2/5/2011, Kurt Oblinger wrote:
>Maybe the ice was made with heavy water?
>
>What?
>Right, back to my corner......
>
>Kurt O.
>
>On 2/4/2011 8:48 PM, Randall wrote:
>>>Maybe if the root beer is largely corn syrup, that could be
>>>lower density.
>>Nope, corn syrup is also higher density than water.
>>
>>In fact, normal ice does float on normal root beer (I worked for awhile as a
>>soda jerk many years ago).  So I'm also at a loss to explain what Steve saw;
>>unless perhaps the ice was stuck to the glass and only came free after the
>>level had dropped.
>>
>>Used to be that A&W would store their glass mugs in the freezer, so when
>>they added root beer, the cold mug would actually freeze water out of the
>>root beer onto the glass.  But I thought they quit doing that a long time
>>ago (shortly before I stopped buying root beer there).
>>
>>-- Randall
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