Why Water and Ethanol Shrink When Mixed #ethanol #dailylab 🧪

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]Hello guys. In this video you will see how chemistry is weird in some unique way and why you want plus one doesn't always equal two in chemistry. To do this I carefully added 10 ml of water to 10 ml of absolute ethanol. Anyone would have expected 20 ml of final solution.

[00:00:17]Yeah, that didn't happen. Instead, the volume shrinks and here is why. In solutions like ethanol and water, the molecules have a strong attractive forces. They slip into each others spaces packing more tightly than before.

[00:00:31]So yeah, in chemistry even simple math takes a twist.