This Protein Hugs Ice Crystals to Death 

It could be that they aren't made until an organism hits a certain temperature too. Lots of factors here the research is still figuring out!

There could be quintillions of molecules in your body right now that just spin and don’t do anything else

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The floor is made of floor

Welp. I didn't have a _lot_ of time for a research hole--but here we are!

How do the nucleating proteins get into a cloud? And why would an organism want ice to form? To use the enthalpy of fusion to keep warm?

Your video is good​@@Clockworkbio

@bladdnun3016 ikr. I call b.s. on this. atmospheric dust isn't an effective nucleation site?

@@john-ic5pz It is, but ice nucleating proteins are even better

shame it died :(

I agree. ✌🏾❤️

2024 finally getting the recognition this channel deserves

Yea I had to shutter the in-depth explanations for now! When you're a small youtuber--the budget is real tight. I decided to crowdsource the details/ disucssion on my twitter (@this_clockwork) and use the website budget to fact check my bigger scripts for now. This one didn't make the cut for fact checking since I needed that whole budget to make sure I nail the facts for my March video. There are some really interesting wrinkles in what make these proteins work tho!

@@Clockworkbio Makes sense! Good luck with production!

Biochem is so nuts, right?

@@Clockworkbio indeed it is

I mean, of all the ways to go, right?

It seem so, with these we could freze only some specific organs

He's awesome like that

I'm guessing planning and scheduling helps a lot with that!

Came here to ask exactly this aswell. If anyone knows the answer Im interested to hear it!

Maybe its the temperature foe an entire body of water to freeze?

they delay ice forming, as you say. and then water starts to crystalize somewhere else and gets delayed... and after a few iterations of that, you're delaying it so much that it's not freezing. but if you go colder, then the crystallization goes faster than the delays -- that colder point is the new(lower) freezing temperature. freezing is an average - you take a quintillion water molecules which are all jiggling around and slow a bunch of them down and that's what colder water means - less jiggling overall, but the jiggling hasn't stopped. keep slowing a bunch down (i.e. lower the temperature) and eventually some are so slow they start to hang together more than they jiggle apart. but they are still being jostled by nearby jiggling molecules, pushing them apart as they try to hang together. bits of ice are forming and breaking constantly as the temperature lowers - delaying the formation of crystals is the same as lowering the freezing point, because you need the crystals to start forming faster than they are being broken by nearby jiggling water molecules -- which is to say you need to slow down the nearby water molecules (also known as lowering the temperature) so they are more likely to join in the crystal than to knock it apart. I need some of this guy's animation skills, but hopefully you get the idea anyway.

Now I'm envisioning a dance club full of people all bumping into each other as they dance - and some people try to slow dance, but with all the bumping they keep getting bumped apart. some people get tired and start dancing slower, but there's not a DJ that tells everyone to stop and find a partner all at the same time. because the DJ isn't there to tell everyone to be cold all at once, it takes a long time for everyone to get tired enough that more and more slow dances can come together without being bumped apart. in addition to what I said about freezing being an average - the other important thing is that freezing is the default state. the water doesn't GET slowed down, it's slowing down all on it own. "making it colder" is a process of "adding less and less heat" and letting the heat it bleed off. but absolute zero is very difficult to achieve - so you're never really adding zero heat, just less heat. you can add so little that you aren't making up for heat that is going away - we call that the freezing point, but you still need some time to let all the heat drain out for it to actually finish freezing. I'm trying here, but even "freezing water" is complicated stuff. Sorry if I'm not properly explaining it.

​@@silverharloe So, basically, at tiny scales ice likes to spontaneously decompose, and by delaying its rate of formation you keep the ice decomposing faster than it can form.

It really is! And there're EVERYWHERE in biochem and Organic Chemistry!

thanks so much!

gonna watch and like all your videos

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@@Clockworkbio :) I found this channel at the exact right time!

and a little sunlight and some air and a couple minerals!

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brb stealing this line

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