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I go to a christian private school and we have science fairs this time a year, and u HAVE to do one, so i need a bible verse for my bible appliance section on this project: im trying to figure out which method of cooling, cools soda better. it can just be relating to God, it doesnt have to be a direct verse.
i need something relating to God’s character

Ask of me, and I will show you great and mighty things, which thou knowest not…

Jer 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

THE FASTEST way to cool soda is with a CO2 fire extinguisher IF money is no object, since it costs about $30.00 to recharge the fire extinguisher, this can be done in 30 seconds (or less).

A much more PRACTICAL way is to put it in the refrigerator…

FASTER is to put it in ice….

FASTER is to put it in ice AND ice water (submerged)

FASTEST is to put it in ice AND ROCK SALT in the water (submerged)…

The rock salt added TO the water allows the water to get down to about 15 degrees AND remain liquid, and this is THE fastest way to cool anything canned that you want to drink…

I saw a TV program about this where they used thermometers and stop watches and did all the above methods….It wasn’t exactly a Christian program, they were cooling beer, but obviously the physics of the methods would apply to most anything in a can.

You could buy several six packs of generic soda, an inexpensive thermometer, and DO the above, record your results, and Voila!! (I remember buying a bag of rock salt that had a recipe for ice cream on the label, I don’t remember the RATIO of rock salt to ice, but this shouldn’t be too hard to find, ask grandma).

In my first home out of college, I was trying to defrost the refrigerator in our leased apartment, and I started chipping away at the walls with a large pick. I hit the wall and <pphwwwwwooooooooosshh!!> all of this freon vapor comes out, effectively making the fridge a large cabinet, unfit for keeping things cold.

When I lived in Boulder, CO., with my ex-husband Saturday was the normal cleaning day for our split-level 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. I cleaned my way through the house, dusting, vacuuming, mopping,cleaned both bathrooms all the way to the kitchen, the last room on the list. I cleaned all the counters and surfaces and mopped and waxed the kitchen floor and then started the dishwasher. When I was putting something away I found a dirty dish which I took to the dishwasher that was already running. Unlike the dishwasher in our old house, this one did not automatically shut off when you opened the door, which I did, water shot out HARD and drenched me right in the face, water was sheeting off my eyeglasses and of course was now all over the newly mopped and waxed kitchen floor.

So…I cleaned up that mess and re-washed and re-waxed the kitchen floor again. By now I am thirsty and the floor is fairly dry so I decided to make some kool-aid. I grab the pitcher, the kool-aid and the sugar canister, which slips out of my hand and lands up side down on the floor, still a bit tacky from the fresh wax. Sugar everywhere, but I finally manage to get the sugar cleaned up, and the floor once again mopped and waxed. For the third time that day!!!!! I finish making the kool-aid, pour myself a much needed glass and then I open the door to the refrigerator to put the kool-aid away and a full DOZEN eggs falls out onto the newly washed and waxed kitchen floor. I don’t remember much after that……it’s all foggy, something about tequila, the sound of my husbands laughter and a threat of sticking a mop handle somewhere my husband would really not like.

Want to hear about the time I tried to fool the cops and grabbed a can of roach spray instead of the can of "quick start"?