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Ice Breath
Topic Started: Apr 8 2011, 04:07 PM (3,767 Views)
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i think that everyone here knows about fire breath, but could ice breath work? can an animal have a real life verson of ice beam from pokemon, or could they only keep your drink cold? what are the limits to this idea?
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I think its much more plausible than breathing fire. Just have a tundra, taiga or glacier dwelling creature store water in an specialized organ and have it squirt the water at other creatures. It would then freeze due to polar tempatures and wola! Instant ice beam :D

(Although It would only work in regions like our arctic and antarctic circles)
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Yes, dump water in a desert on a target that is insulated from water and ice.
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Apr 8 2011, 07:06 PM
Yes, dump water in a desert on a target that is insulated from water and ice.
Eh I guess you have a point there...

I always forget that tundra's count as deserts since when I think of deserts I think of heat...
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ok, do we have anything for ice breath anywere else?
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BananaBoyL337:I think its much more plausible than breathing fire. Just have a tundra, taiga or glacier dwelling creature store water in an specialized organ and have it squirt the water at other creatures. It would then freeze due to polar tempatures and wola! Instant ice beam

(Although It would only work in regions like our arctic and antarctic circles)

FallingWhale:Yes, dump water in a desert on a target that is insulated from water and ice.Eh I guess you have a point there...

BananaBoyL337:I always forget that tundra's count as deserts since when I think of deserts I think of heat...


I was just going to say that,luckily I didn't :lol:
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The only way I could see this working is a bizarre version of a Bombardier Beetle's spray, i.e. two chemicals mixing together to create a boiling liquid. However, the two chemicals in this case, when mixed, are strongly endothermic and rapidly draw in temperature from the surroundings.

Frankly I doubt whether there is a reaction so endothermic that it would be able to freeze water.
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When an aerosol is sprayed, it gets colder as energy goes from thermal to kinetic.

A really large pressure and thin nozzle would make this cooling effect greater.
But it still would only have a few metres of range, it it would be diffuse.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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When an aerosol is sprayed, it gets colder as energy goes from thermal to kinetic.

A really large pressure and thin nozzle would make this cooling effect greater.
But it still would only have a few metres of range, it it would be diffuse.
Kinda like how if you blow air out of your mouth, the tighter your ligs get, the colder the air?
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Much more extreme though.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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So that's a yes.
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are there any known chemicals that can do this and not kill the creature in the prosses? and could it be effective enough for it to be used to an advantage?
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What about a plant like the one in the future is wild from the forest in the antartic(was it antartic I dont remeber).Unlike animals the plant could survive a chemicals that can kill a animals in the prosses.
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Dark-matter, I don't recall such a plant ever being on any "Future is Wild" episode. Unless you're talking about the death bottle plant from 200MYF in future Pangaea II.



Frankly, I don't see any way this could actually arise to be effective. Any temperatue in which water freezes instantly and becomes effective as a weapon would also freeze the animal trying to breathe ice. Basically, it would kill the animal in the process, no matter which way you went about it.
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