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freezing

vr.tr.freezing · ACT.PRC

Let an agent explain freezing as a physical process, relay freezing points, latent heat and nucleation from references, describe applications in food, biology and materials, and distinguish freezing from other cooling and solidification processes.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain freezing as a physical process, relay freezing points, latent heat and nucleation from references, describe applications in food, biology and materials, and distinguish freezing from other cooling and solidification processes.

The phase transition of a liquid to a solid when its temperature falls below the freezing point, releasing latent heat, as in water turning to ice, and by extension the process of cooling materials to preserve them, including flash freezing of food for small ice crystals and splat quenching of molten metal to form metallic glasses; freezing governs weather, cryopreservation, food technology and materials science, and supercooling can delay it below the nominal freezing point.

What it is for: Solidifying liquids and preserving materials by cold.

It can be explain the process; relay physical data; describe applications; distinguish from related processes.

Distinguishing features

First-order phase transition

Latent heat release

Nucleation and supercooling

Expansion of water on freezing

What it looks like

Liquid turning to solid, as water to ice.

Physical character

freezing point of water: 0 degrees C - at 1 atm

latent heat of fusion of water: 334 kJ/kg

splat quenching rate: up to about 1 million K/s

How it is recognised

Liquid to solid phase transition

Water freezing, flash freezing, splat quenching, cryopreservation

Refrigeration cools without necessarily freezing; solidification from a melt in casting is related; frostbite is the injury

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

physical process

is a kind of - in registry terms, in its applied sense

refrigeration

is the reverse of - the solid to liquid transition

melting

occurs at - for a given substance and pressure

freezing point

In practice

Families and kinds

freezing of water and ice formation

freezing of food, including flash freezing

cryopreservation of cells and tissues

rapid solidification such as splat quenching

freezing of soils and permafrost

freeze-drying as a related process

Standards and regulation

Food safety rules for frozen food

Standards for cryopreservation in medicine

Building codes for frost protection

Failure modes and hazards

Frost damage to pipes, crops and structures

Ice crystal damage in cells and food

Frostbite and hypothermia

Confusing freezing with chilling

Also called

splat quenchingflash freezing

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What freezing is.

Science.

Definition

Definition and physics.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What happens physically when a liquid freezes, and what are latent heat and nucleation? definition
  2. Is the process freezing, chilling, casting or freeze-drying? boundary

Water

Water and ice.

Water

Water.

  1. Why does water expand on freezing, and what is supercooling? definition
  2. Which entry fits ice? action
Apply Applications.

Application.

Food

Food freezing.

Food

Food.

  1. How does flash freezing preserve food quality, and what safety rules apply? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Biology

Cryopreservation.

Biology

Biology.

  1. How are cells, embryos and tissues frozen and thawed safely? provenance
  2. Which entry fits cryopreservation? action
Materials Materials and environment.

Science.

Materials

Rapid solidification.

Materials

Materials.

  1. How does splat quenching produce metallic glasses and other structures? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Environment

Freezing in nature.

Environment

Environment.

  1. How does freezing shape weather, soils, permafrost and living organisms? provenance
  2. Which entry fits permafrost? action
Context Safety and history.

Context.

Safety

Frost and cold hazards.

Safety

Safety.

  1. How are frost damage and cold injuries prevented? provenance
  2. Is the user describing a cold injury, which needs medical care? boundary

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the science and technology of freezing develop, from ice houses to Birdseye and cryogenics? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of refrigeration? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should flash freezing and cryopreservation be separate entries?
  • How should physical data be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specialised techniques; should they be split off?