Exploding Vodka Bottle

[EightySix Four]

Earlier this afternoon (6-8 hours ago) we poured the remainder of a bottle of vodka (maybe 1/15 or 1/10 of the bottle) into another bottle of vodka that was around 3/4 full. Just now the bottle exploded sending large shards of glass around 7 feet away. The "explosion" was loud enough that my father came running out and thought that someone had shot through the window and hit the bottle.

Was it the pouring of one bottle into another, or did can something get in vodka and cause such intense expansion? None of the bottle pieces or vodka was warm so I'm assuming it wasn't any form of exothermic reaction.

If it matters to anyone the vodka was Tito's.

 

[clamum]

Holy fuck :Q

 

[EGGO]

...are you serious or are you trying to get more material for Mythbusters going?

 

[CrazyLazy]

Did you drop per chance?

 

[EightySix Four]

Nope, never dropped. No one was even near it. The actual bottle itself stayed on the shelf, just the side of it and the booze went everywhere.

I swear it, I'll get pics if that's really necessary.

 

[blinky8225]

High vapor pressure? Ethanol evaporates pretty fast. Maybe when you combined them and sealed it, too much pressure built up. I don't really know, though, Just a guess.

 

[EightySix Four]

Bottle

 

[clamum]

Dude that is pretty intense. Speaking of vodka, Imma finish the rest of my Svedka right nao.

 

[ZzZGuy]

Originally posted by: EGGO
...are you serious or are you trying to get more material for Mythbusters going?

http://xkcd.com/509/

 

[Colt45]

shens

 

[herm0016]

interesting. must have been a reaction btw the types, what were the brands?

 

[EightySix Four]

Originally posted by: Colt45
shens

Sorry I don't have a video camera pointing at the liquor shelf at all times.

Seriously, does anyone have any idea what could have happened? Last night there was a party so I assume someone could have slipped something in either one, but I don't know what reacts that way with vodka (or any liquor).

Both were Tito's brand vodka.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: crazySOB297

Originally posted by: Colt45
shens

Sorry I don't have a video camera pointing at the liquor shelf at all times.

Seriously, does anyone have any idea what could have happened? Last night there was a party so I assume someone could have slipped something in either one, but I don't know what reacts that way with vodka (or any liquor).

Both were Tito's brand vodka.

Sorry but without proof you're going to find it very hard to make anybody believe it. Pics of a broken bottle do nothing. I can't think of anything that would have done this and made such a noise.

 

[Black88GTA]

How high did you fill the bottle? Did you start at 3/4 full, or end there? Was it up to the very top? What was the temperature in the room?

 

[Goosemaster]

kind of funny that no one's asked, but are you alright?

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
kind of funny that no one's asked, but are you alright?

Even more interesting is that we know that nobody asked because he didn't say anything about injury. However, if he had mentioned that he had gotten cut or otherwise injured by the accident, we would have asked even though the answer is obvious.

Things that make you go "hmmm...orse semen" (tribute to dNor)

 

[Rubycon]

They really need to include encoding benchmarks with that. I would be curious to see how it compares to a 4GHz Yorkdale in Avid/Premiere/Vegas H.264 render times which are real world SMP applications.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
They really need to include encoding benchmarks with that. I would be curious to see how it compares to a 4GHz Yorkdale in Avid/Premiere/Vegas H.264 render times which are real world SMP applications.

:lips:

 

[Slew Foot]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
They really need to include encoding benchmarks with that. I would be curious to see how it compares to a 4GHz Yorkdale in Avid/Premiere/Vegas H.264 render times which are real world SMP applications.

Head explodes.

 

[Locut0s]

Did you screw the cap back on the bottle? Only thing that makes sense to me is a combination of a weak bottle and some kind of rapid gas build up under the cap. Perhaps the old vodka was mixed in with something that fermented really quickly?

 

[EightySix Four]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Did you screw the cap back on the bottle? Only thing that makes sense to me is a combination of a weak bottle and some kind of rapid gas build up under the cap. Perhaps the old vodka was mixed in with something that fermented really quickly?

Temperature in the room was mid 70's. The bottle was ~4/5 full from it's original start point. Cap was screwed on tightly. It had to be a pressure thing, and I'm assuming the points where it broke were all the weakest points on the bottle. There was another hole towards the bottom edge where a tito's bottle flattens out a bit but I broke off the bottom when I threw it in the trash.

My little brother cut his foot on a piece of glass that we missed when he got up this morning, but otherwise everyone is uninjured.

I still would like to know what it was that it may have mixed with...

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's obvious! You mixed Russian and Finnish vodkas who'd destroy each other in a heartbeat.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: crazySOB297

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Did you screw the cap back on the bottle? Only thing that makes sense to me is a combination of a weak bottle and some kind of rapid gas build up under the cap. Perhaps the old vodka was mixed in with something that fermented really quickly?

Temperature in the room was mid 70's. The bottle was ~4/5 full from it's original start point. Cap was screwed on tightly. It had to be a pressure thing, and I'm assuming the points where it broke were all the weakest points on the bottle. There was another hole towards the bottom edge where a tito's bottle flattens out a bit but I broke off the bottom when I threw it in the trash.

My little brother cut his foot on a piece of glass that we missed when he got up this morning, but otherwise everyone is uninjured.

I still would like to know what it was that it may have mixed with...

I would assume that the cap would fail before breaking the bottle like that. Do you have any little brothers or sisters? A cat that might've knocked it over? IMO it's a lot more likely that the bottle makes an exploding noise when broken rather than the bottle itself exploded.

 

[EightySix Four]

Originally posted by: zixxer

Originally posted by: crazySOB297

Originally posted by: Locut0s
Did you screw the cap back on the bottle? Only thing that makes sense to me is a combination of a weak bottle and some kind of rapid gas build up under the cap. Perhaps the old vodka was mixed in with something that fermented really quickly?

Temperature in the room was mid 70's. The bottle was ~4/5 full from it's original start point. Cap was screwed on tightly. It had to be a pressure thing, and I'm assuming the points where it broke were all the weakest points on the bottle. There was another hole towards the bottom edge where a tito's bottle flattens out a bit but I broke off the bottom when I threw it in the trash.

My little brother cut his foot on a piece of glass that we missed when he got up this morning, but otherwise everyone is uninjured.

I still would like to know what it was that it may have mixed with...

I would assume that the cap would fail before breaking the bottle like that. Do you have any little brothers or sisters? A cat that might've knocked it over? IMO it's a lot more likely that the bottle makes an exploding noise when broken rather than the bottle itself exploded.

The actual bottle never moved, it was still on the second shelf sitting up. Just the glass from the side of it and the vodka was on the floor accross the room.

 

[Squisher]

Someone is beaming microwaves at your house to recharge the batteries for their surveillance devices, there was a concentration of the waves when they crossed at the location of the bottle. Inform the Department Homeland Security they'll pass the message to the correct department.


btw-are you a terrorist?