Re: Why does water freeze more quickly than wine, milk, bleach or orange juice?

Hi Chelsea,
not bad what you are doing at the moment, I hope you are enjoying it!

But I want to point out one thing - not all what is liquid is water!
You have to distinguish between water, water in which for example salt or 
other things are solved and other liquids than water.

You mention water, milk, oil wine and bleach.

Water - is just a liquid with the formula H2O, nothing else (at least in 
theory, because it is not 100% pure, there is dirt in it and oxygen etc.)

Milk - is a mixture of water (most of it) but as you probably know you also 
have a certain amount of fat in it and calcium and vitamins etc, so it is a 
complex mixture.

Oil - is something totally different, it is a mixture of types of fat, but 
there is NO water in it (at least if it is pure oil).

Wine - is water (most of it) and about 10% of alcohol, so it is a mixture 
of liquids.

Bleach - I don't know exactly which kind of bleach you are talking about, 
maybe hydrogen peroxide, so it water with a solved other substance.

So you see - totally different substances, all of them contain of small 
part, "molecules", and there are forces between those particles which hold 
them together. 

But depending on the type of molecule (the art of atoms, e.g. oxygen or 
carbon etc. they consist of) those forces are strong or not, 
and in water those forces are strong - so you have to withdraw only a 
little bit of energy (=heat) and the atoms can't move anymore.

In other substances those forces are weak - so the molecules are not 
interested in interacting with each other, you have to withdraw a lot of 
energy to keep them in place.

So think about using other containers - is there a difference in those 
forces between the particles? Of course not, the "milk-particles" see their 
neighbours, they are not interested in their container. It would take 
longer (shorter) for all of them, but the order would not be changed.

What you could do: Try to mix substances!
Example: Water freezes after 5 minutes, milk after 7.5 minutes. So if you 
mix those substances 50:50, will the time it needs be in the middle of the 
times the pure substances need?

I hope I could help you,

Good Luck!
Andreas