How to Cool Your Drinks Fast!

In a rush to cool down some drinks before your next summer party? In this science experiment, Alex Dainis shows how you can speed up the process by adding salt to your cooler. Salt lowers the freezing point of water, meaning the water can get colder than its typical freezing point of 32 degrees Fahrenheit or zero degrees Celsius. When you add salt, it dissolves into the water and breaks apart into ions that interfere with the freezing process. This is why you might put salt down on your driveway to melt ice in the winter. But in the summer it means you can submerge your soda cans into a bath of water that’s even colder than regular ice, cooling it down faster than you would with just ice.