Frozen Beer mystery

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Last Fri night, wanting to wash away the weeks woes had a couple of ales. The third one of the six pack was frozen!!! aaagh!!!! Damn, I thought, and purely in the interests of science you understand, I had to test the remaining bottles - all OK. How does a bottle IN THE MIDDLE of a six pack freeze, while the surrounding bottles are OK...
 
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Last Fri night, wanting to wash away the weeks woes had a couple of ales. The third one of the six pack was frozen!!! aaagh!!!! Damn, I thought, and purely in the interests of science you understand, I had to test the remaining bottles - all OK. How does a bottle IN THE MIDDLE of a six pack freeze, while the surrounding bottles are OK...

Cue "Twilight Zone" theme song.. :p I will say very odd...:D
 
It's summer, 'down there' too, isn't it?

Damn, I thought, and purely in the interests of science ...



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in which the term in Ω × vB is the Coriolis acceleration and the term in Ω × ( Ω × rB) is the centrifugal acceleration. The results are (let α = θ − ωt):
  
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producing a centrifugal acceleration:

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producing a Coriolis acceleration:

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Figure 5 and Figure 6 show these accelerations for a particular example.


  


Which proves the Frozen Beer, to be no less than a Miracle!
 
The pressure in the frozen bottle was a smidgin less than the others. The others were probably on the ragged edge of freezing, but had higher pressure, reducing the freezing point slightly. Was it frozen before you popped it?

If you want some science, you'll have to look at a T-S diagram for water.....

Was the middle one the first one you popped?
 
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