Is it Possible To Freeze an Electric Spark in Solid Ice?

In this video I experiment to see if we can generate a spark in liquid nitrogen and also in solid ice!
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[@orionm4254]

Is it possible to freeze electricity: No Is it possible to hold a charge: Yes

[@dirtydoigler2116]

Depends on how cold you get it.

[@gabe8168]

@@dirtydoigler2116 I don't think you know what electricity is. Edit: cold just means lack of energy, so how do you make energy cold. Energy doesn't get cold or hot, because it itself is the reason things are cold and hot

[@gabe8168]

@DoYouEvenGameAndLift BRUH that's different smartass. Nomatther how much heat energy you group together, the heat energy itself can not be hotter or colder. The heat energy has it's fixed heat, and all the heat energy together makes up a greater heat. Whatever contains that heat energy is what you say is hotter or colder. That has nothing to do with the water analogy. You can't compare two unrelated substances to prove a point

[@amireyvazi9251]

@@gabe8168 hey man Greetings I was just curious about two subjects and you seem to be quite knowledgeable about scientific stuff. 1: can flame conduct electricity?! Or more specifically can electricity go through the fire? 2: does lightning or electricity put out fire when they hit it if the voltage was high enough?! I would be so thankful if you respond to this. Thank you

[@gabe8168]

@@amireyvazi9251 1. Flame doesn't conduct electricity. Flame is a result of different chemical reactions. 2. The reason fire could be started by a lightning strike is because electricity can be used to start the chemical reaction. Flame is not one thing, it is a result of multiple things

[@juangreen8194]

I would like to see this on a high-speed camera.

[@gabor6259]

Link this video under the next video of The Slow Mo Guys.

[@orawal]

The Slow Mo Guyz.... ya'll listening?

[@jeelpatel231]

Well, you can see on phone also tho

[@adams.555]

@@orawal slow motion footage is achieved by using high speed camera.

[@LikeWagon]

*the frozen sparks still lighting* *Him:* Woah, that is so "cool"

[@brengeldelacruz8866]

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[@sagittariusa581]

Ba dum tss

[@whengrapespop5728]

Like Wagon It _was_ pretty lit, though

[@belagu4517]

Wait you again

[@boneguardsteel994]

It's called lightning.

[@ivelllalt770]

This channel is just slowly revealing that this was supposed to be for wizards and hiding the facts by saying science stuffs. I mean it all started like few years ago. The legend says that he is still using dark magic till this day.

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

：．

[@d.SAiNi.]

What..?

[@dannysg3229]

He uses dark energy and matter to power his magic 😂

[@arvindsadhoe3775]

Your a genius

[@arvindsadhoe3775]

Are you albert einstein or stepen hawkins ?

[@Rides1283man]

Wow, that was _shocking_

[@scorpio1546]

"Stop it get some help"

[@Uzziman-ft7rt]

Marvelous

[@mcj0014]

Leave

[@cooburger]

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Get out

[@kigwil9495]

This channel and Vsauce always seems to answer questions I’ve wondered about but never said out loud

[@Tetopettenson1]

It's always cool and entertaining when they explain it

[@nafisaradhanpurwala4399]

2020- stocks everything due to situations of corona Action lab man :- why not stock electricity in freezed formm..

[@RobleViejo]

The title is pure bait, the video is actually "Is it Possible To Produce an Electric Spark in Solid Ice?"

[@sauliusltcool6902]

dude. This a joke?

[@bingovalue]

SauliusLT cool no he only produces it i the video, when he says he freezes it

[@zt3853]

It’s a question title - so it’s *asking* a question. I get that it might be misleading though

[@sauliusltcool6902]

@@bingovalue oh yeah i idint notice. I thought that he wrote the same thing

[@frankynakamoto2308]

Is not even electricity is holographic tech he creates with his own brain.

[@bboyhanvzla]

action lab and electroboom doing a video together, that would be nice.

[@markzaikov456]

Full Bridge Frozen Rectifier!

[@stoneysims6475]

I would pay to see this collab😂

[@astrometron]

Just now I watched his DC motor video

[@silverXI22]

*AH SH*** *- electroboom*

[@RamiR2]

No this guy is just a mildly interesting not informative or useful

[@tomas2375]

5:03 My guess would be that micro-pockets of air were present in the solid ice, and after heating up those pockets would get smaller.

[@Anankin12]

My guess is that, since ice is a dielectric, we were seeing the same phenomenon as before while there was no water present. Yes, pure water is a dielectric too, but since it probably wasn't pure water it acted as a bridge. Even if it was pire, tho, since it's in contact with metal some metallic particle will get dissolved in the water pretty quickly, thus making it a conductor anyway.

[@outviteslb8143]

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[@tomas2375]

@@outviteslb8143 Yes and obviously no!

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[@DigitalWraith]

@@outviteslb8143 And I Love You, Random Citizen!

[@itachiswill5263]

"I got an electric wimshurst machine" Using electricity to create electricity... Brilliant

[@clementpoon120]

I guess that's one way to make a transformer...

[@nyan2317]

James: "i can't be cranking that using my hand" Me: *Sad Soulja boy noises*

[@DanielTseng100]

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[@LeglessWonder]

Soulja Boy tell 'em

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[@reticuluminfirma9407]

0:56 Action labs: uses electricity stored in batteries in order to power generator to make electricity. EFFICIENCY 100

[@user-bv6hf7vs4o]

2019-cold fire 2020-freezing electricity 2060-*BURNING ICE*

[@KajiinSkyrim]

Actually is already possible to burn ice.

[@thibaut5345]

Well. A bar of iron at 100°C is physically nothing else than melted-iron ice.

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

4:27 this is the cloud look like. During the storm event

[@mcj0014]

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[@subnormalbark2683]

Thanks Princeton0551 very epic

[@subnormalbark2683]

I can’t handle the grammar

[@archanamotagi1675]

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[@jpartieda]

Yeah but a break from the stress about the virus

[@shubhshukla8154]

I love this line- " Hey everyone, today I am going to _________(A very awesone experinent)

[@MammaOVlogs]

yes me too

[@JerryWDaviscom]

"... detonate the worlds lowest yield nuclear device, something you can do at home if you have a book of matches, a watch with good lume, and 110v. A very awesome experiment.

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[@beactivebehappy9894]

James: Sike, send 10 gallons of liquid nitrogen!! Guy on phone: Are you from the cryogenics? ARTs? Researcher? Him: No, just for KZbin

[@A.I.C.U.8.1.2]

And ima Put it in PAPER CUPS then use my HANDS to uh, Play with it

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

Holy cow! These videos are so cool! You seem to specialize in the most unusual and interesting natural effects. Thank you so much. You and your channel are AWESOME! 👍

[@realracerz3242]

I guess I was the only one who thought that the spark will be stored in the ice and we can put it in the fridge for future uses.

[@gsanchez922]

Tesla would love do that with their cars

[@MammaOVlogs]

"l always end up shocking myself" lol

[@saigouthamvalaboju4214]

Your content is truly lit 🔥 U always come up with great ideas

[@xiaoshen194]

1:20 ... when I am home alone with phone in 1 hand amd stick in the other

[@eltemplariodetierrasanta7234]

OMEGA LOL

[@-cookiezila-461]

Action lab: uploaded 28 minutes ago Comments: written *15 hours ago*

[@aidenweldon5298]

I know this was a week ago, but it could be because he pre releases his video to patreons

[@eugenetswong]

Thanks for this! I really appreciate learning this.

[@SubUltraInc]

I love your videos. I want to try almost every experiment you do. I do the little experiments on my channel but soon I want to try some of yours. I’m getting a dewar for some liquid nitrogen experiments I can’t wait

[@3dy441]

Watch a video a night, always watching always learning. Love it and ty

[@dirtydoigler2116]

“I’m just gunna freeze this water with liquid nitrogen.”

[@Darth_Tim]

4:30 "That is sooo cooool" 🤣 Action Lab catch phrase

[@Leverguns50]

That was really cool, I guess with all the dry ice😂

[@prafullitmedi6830]

Where do you come up with all of these freaking cool and innovative (like all of them) ideas...? Favorite channel of all times!

[@gamechanger3739]

your small generator is cool!

[@prachisrivastava6461]

This is just the next level ASMR isn't it

[@750kv8]

That's a cute little Wimshurst generator!

[@raghavendraj3758]

Fantastic practicle experiment you have show super sir.

[@nealsonf]

That's awesome keep up the great work! I didn't expect another video so soon! I honestly have never not thought this experiment. Wonder what it would be like if you can get the liquid nitrogen in the vacuum chamber and try the experiment again. Take Care and stay healthy. ♡

[@ThePrufessa]

First of all exactly how many experiments had you thought of prior to them being in a video? This comment implies that every experiment he does you've already thought of. Secondly, what difference is the vacuum chamber going to make? All it's gonna do is cause the ice to melt off EXTREMELY fast. Furthermore electricity works perfectly fine in vacuums so why would the results be any different? Doing this in a vacuum chamber will be completley pointless.

[@nealsonf]

@@ThePrufessa ok

[@jsutinbibber9508]

@@nealsonf ok

[@StefanReich]

You didn't really "freeze" the spark though

[@Anankin12]

Well, "can you freeze a spark?" Answer: no.

[@StefanReich]

@@Anankin12 I had expected him to show the spark's traces in the ice and then say "look, I freezed a spark!"

[@ThePrufessa]

@@Anankin12 but he never really clarified that. His title asks the question. But his reaction in the video was as if he were successful at freezing a spark. I don't even know why he was so amazed. It's not that surprising that a spark can flow thru frozen water. He was acting like it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen.

[@ThePrufessa]

@@StefanReich so did I. I wanted to see a spark frozen in ice. Even though I know a spark is nothing but light and that light is impossible to freeze he still mislead us with his reactions as if he successfully froze a spark.

[@Heulerado]

Yeah that was such a clickbaity thing to do. Didn't expect that from him, he usually delivers...

[@AD-ol3wv]

Just want you to know you are really cool and inspire a ton of people I look up to you a lot

[@azhakabad4229]

So, good action to reaction.

[@georgeygenesis2633]

I don’t understand why you get so many dislikes on all you’re videos.You’re channel is so interesting, you derserve zero dislikes!

[@jeffo9396]

There's various reasons why people give dislikes. People tend to be overly critical.

[@smitshah691]

Nice video mate !!!

[@AnuragDeshpande]

Excellent experiment. With Slowmoguys..... awesomeness will go to another dimension.

[@ShilohSedlak]

Where'd you get that cool wimshurst machine?

[@JerryWDaviscom]

OK, cool. I like the frozen water demo. Now embed the electrode ends in lucite and try it again.

[@ksboyz1979]

Should totally test if spark can happen in vacuum!

[@krushinde1713]

every time i think out of the box you have a video about it 😂👍

[@aiiiia9971]

You have earned a sub

[@Wasbever_14]

I hav a question: Is there light that doesn’t damage our eyes and we can see? So no infrared light. And also light that isn’t UV light. But if you can’t answer this question it doesn’t matter!

[@dirtydoigler2116]

The sun emits a lot of light, some of which is dangerous (including UV and X-ray). If you could find an alternative light source that only emits light in the visible spectrum, then it should not damage your eyes. As far as I know, infrared isn’t harmful (I’m not a doctor) but you’ll probably get some with any light source that gets hot. LEDs with a diffuser might be your best option.

[@theoriginalandtrueamazonman]

I wanna see you make a sculpture of fossilized lightning and how to do it! id love to have a good ol' lightning fossil in ma room

[@atharvamarathe]

I like to see how the sound of spark and the actual lighting isn't in sync considering the differences in speeds. Like we see it during thunder but looking at a mini model feels funny :D

[@onradioactivewaves]

The title should be "make a spark through something frozen" or something to that extent.

[@dodokgp]

This is a cool demonstration especially because my PhD research was on light emission from avalanche breakdown in solids. I do not think that the observation of the sparks disappearing in the ice after some time can be explained by air pocket formation. Air has 80 times lower breakdown electric field than pure ice (due to different relative permittivity). The local presence of air or spark-induced defects would have lowered the breakdown field and the sparks would have continued. What I think is happening is the result of Paschen's Law. Breakdown voltage has a positive temperature coefficient. With local heating, the voltage needed to cause the breakdown increases. If the RPM of the generator wheel is maintained the same, this would result in the voltage reducing below the threshold (like a negative feedback). To verify my theory I would like to ask you: if you wait for some longer time, did the sparks reappear in the ice (when it cools down) ?

[@gamingwithdeku9992]

You, yes you sir, you changed my life and my outlook towards science. It is for you and only you that my science isn't just the theory and formulae we're taught in school. Thank you sir for making science truly science.

[@mikespark72]

another brilliant experiment bud, how the heck do you come up with all these?

[@Games_and_Music]

My only guess as to why the sparks go away shortly after the ice drops off, is that maybe the 2 nodes are covered with water(droplets) and deflect/bend the currency too much for a short period of time, before returning back to normal.

[@saebsaqer]

Thank you SO much SIR !!!!!!!

[@certifiedhero7]

Thank you for your videos and making advanced technology seem so practical. One day you may crack the code on some tech, make a video about it and possibly have someone tell you, "Hey, don't do that. It's a secret." But I hope you find common ground and good reasoning to continue your efforts.

[@izhamlegend6961]

I love your videos man... Good job

[@icecreamplayz1758]

I’m new to this Channel but I love it

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

5:03 Well, many materials increase their conductivity as their temperature decreases. Could that be the same here?

[@marcelotriscaro9430]

I came from Genshin Impact as to see why cryo beats the electro.

[@Daily_Dose_of_Grass]

Yea I came to see how superconduct works 😅

[@coolnegative]

Depends on the mineral content of the water. It wouldn't work with "pure" water.

[@dr3754]

that was freakin awesome. so sparks and electric go thru ice. might be good to know.

[@jaybingham3711]

Another great idea. Very enjoyable. We don't fully understand all properties of water. Maybe the melting into liquid produced an insulating effect that interrupts the spark. Maybe it's due to another unknown property.

[@bunny7031]

This guy is the best wow shows so much interest in science he deserves more subs

[@animogear1799]

I want to.ask that when we put our hand in flowing water, why does it follows the hand instead of flowing downwards??

[@adamrussell658]

Only semi-related but I once took a Fluke brand ohm-meter to LN and it was beyond the range it was able to measure. LN is a very good insulator. Of course breakdown voltage is not the same as resistance.

[@jloomis7]

I was on the edge of my seat waiting for him to find a way/reason to incorporate the vacuum chamber.

[@NimeLime]

U r amazing man.

[@bhargavrokade9279]

That is basically transfer of electrons from a point of higher potential difference to lower It does not have significant mass ..... In order to freeze electrons you will have to do it at a temperature of nearly-273°C and that too for the time it requires to cover the distance from positive to negative electrode. Also you can stock up electricity only in batteries Thanks for reading

[@lelethufutshane772]

Wouldnt the temp. affect the resistance on the poles🤔. Cool experiment, very informative btw.😁👌

[@deborahtheredbrickchick468]

Fascinating ~ it takes my thoughts to Antarctica and I wonder about the electro magnetic fields there and what they are hiding ✨

[@azers-zm3rm]

I love your videos please keep it up and post more

[@PAA-ne3pc]

Maybe because as the entropy increase the resistivity increase as well i.e same reason that make the super conductors super

[@Hazem-Gt]

0:52 OMG I PAUSED IT WHEN IT SHOCKED!!

[@balajisriram6363]

The reason why the sparks went out when the ice got a little bit warmer is because the salt content in the ice became more evenly distributed. hence the gap between the electrodes became partially conductive( basically you shorted the HV and Gnd electrode). so conductive current would flow immediately as the potential tries to build up in one electrode so there is an immediate collapse in voltage. As far as i can see, the generator is only capable of generating a few joules of energy. hence, the potential wouldn't rise up as high because the medium is already conductive. The built up charge is already dissipated through conduction even before the potential can become significantly high to visualize a breakdown. PS: I'm a High Voltage Engineer at IIT kanpur. hope you liked my explanation

[@onionboy6934]

0 views and twelve likes yep that’s right

[@nickarganbright7218]

Never understand why this shocks people, you have to watch a video for a certain amount of time before it is considered a view, but you can like it instantly

[@FedeG86]

It's because KZbin considers "wiewed" the video if you watched it until the end.

[@boraulker9213]

@@FedeG86 thats not how it works...

[@WrittenInFilm]

KZbins view counter doesnt update instantly as the data is cached on a server closer to you and only updates in intervals to prevent the database from being overwelmed. Also youtube has an algorithm to detect what is a view and what isnt, part of it being if you stayed on the video for a certain amount of time.

[@FedeG86]

@@boraulker9213 ah, I thought it was like this. It seems I heard something wrong about that. 😅

[@cortland2379]

I'm not sure but I think if the spark went away at the end when the ice was getting warmer it's because the heat create resistance so the electricity has more difficulty to pass

[@joshuahymel9750]

Great video!

[@TurpInTexas]

Cool! This is kind of a variation on the permanent electrophor, something the alchemist's tried to create ages ago. They were partially successful, they would take a piece of metal, charge it up with the high voltage, then pour molten beeswax around it to isolate it and when the beeswax finally cooled off and it hardened, they could go around picking up bits of paper and things like that because of the trapped charge in the piece of metal. I heard it would hold the charge for several days so it made for an interesting trick. Anyhow, believe it or not, the permanent electrophor is the concept behind flash ram. I tiny piece of metal oxide (I think, can't remember for sure) is isolated in silicon dioxide and by charging and discharging the element, determines if it is going to be a 1 or a 0... I always thought it was amazing how fantasy can become reality....

[@anonymousbanana204]

do you want to invest in liquid electricity

[@varcapadv3647]

with out an conductor electronic in ice nice

[@kennethjones2546]

I’ve always had this hypothesis but with FIRE. Imagine a solid flame sold as a sculpture.

[@theluxalpha]

I’m early! I love these videos! So cool!

[@ranationminecraft4092]

I love your satisfying expirament

[@ripperisalive]

this guy never clickbaits

[@genchamillion7691]

_shockingly_ *cool*

[@infinateU]

...excellent...

[@ThomasMusings]

FASCINATING

[@stormrungaming]

Good video... but I thought you were trying to somehow get a spark to STAY in a ice cube. lol

[@TheGamenerd_]

unique as always

[@Learner0009]

That's so cool. -Action Lab 2020

[@lx4302]

Is the flash caused by the rolling shutter effect? It would be pretty cool to see a slow mo capture of this

[@IncredibleJohn]

Is it possible to have any kind of fire in no pressure? If there is I'd love to see how in a video!

[@markschultz2897]

4:29 Rolling shutter ftw

[@ogdan1173]

Hello. You are can add a bridge rectifire?

[@AviRotstein]

when the ice melted into water, it created a conductive channel and shorted out the generator. Even pure water becomes more and more conductive as you pass a current through it.

[@SireSquish]

Perhaps you could make some clear ice (see a few videos on how to make whisky ice cubes, if this isn't already instantly familiar to you) and try this again with more visibility.

[@cs-xy5fr]

Awesome!!!

[@SD-or2tk]

Today i gained new knowledge

[@blugz01]

can you put that inside vacum space with nitrogen