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IrelandCody'sLab's desert ice experiment ends with a hard-earned iced tea
With no new uploads, "Niter Ice" remains the channel's busiest video, now past 1.7 million views.
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Niter Ice
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- 1:13Water evaporating through unglazed terracotta cools the contents without electricity.
- 2:22Dissolving potassium nitrate absorbs heat, lowering the water's temperature further.
- 6:17Pre-chilled water and successive potassium nitrate cooling stages bring the experiment closer to freezing.
- 13:43Shaking a jar of supercooled water triggers immediate ice formation.
- 17:51The sugary Otter Pop needs a lower freezing temperature than the bath achieves.
- 20:25Cody estimates using five kilograms of potassium nitrate for about twenty grams of ice, then adds it to tea.
Cody settles into a lounge chair in the desert with iced tea, but getting those few floating pieces into the glass has taken terracotta pots, nighttime cooling and a substantial quantity of potassium nitrate. The payoff in "Niter Ice" is wonderfully ordinary. The route there is anything but.
Cody'sLab posted nothing new this week, leaving that experiment as its most active upload. We covered its early momentum here last month; it has now passed 1.7 million views and continues to draw more daily views than either of the other videos supplying the channel's strongest current momentum.
The experiment begins with heat in the Great Basin Desert and Cody's wish to save electricity for other uses. Unglazed pots cool water through evaporation, then dissolving potassium nitrate absorbs more heat. He combines the methods in stages until he can make ice. An Otter Pop proves a tougher assignment: its sugar pushes the required freezing temperature lower than his cooling bath can manage.
Elsewhere in the catalog, "Potassium Nitrate From My Own Pee" follows his processing of biofilter-treated urine into crystals, while "Continuous Feed Jar For Infinite Pickles" tests a replenishable pickle jar inspired by Sichuan traditions. Refrigeration, chemical recovery and ongoing fermentation make a distinctly Cody-shaped collection of household projects.
The channel's subscriber count was unchanged over the week, and its current daily viewing pace is below usual. Nearby in subscriber size, Sick Science! is running close to its normal daily pace, while Deep Look is also having a slower day than usual. Cody'sLab added roughly 88,000 views across the week without a fresh upload, with desert-made ice providing its biggest current draw.
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Which regional tradition inspired Cody's continuously replenished pickle jar?
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