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Food: Ice
Heavy ice cubes   (+2)  [vote for, against]
Ice cubes with lead in

Put a small lead ball covered with plastic in with the water when you make ice cubes. The ice cubes will sink to the bottom of your drink.

It's a funny surprise for your guests, a converstaion piece, an icebreaker.

Also it keeps the ice from your lips making the drinking easier.
-- zeno, Jul 23 2011

Heavy Water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water
Deuterium [csea, Jul 24 2011]

Is it possible to make a sugar solution which can be frozen to make heavier-than-water ice cube?

Oooh! Oooh! I just checked, and the density of pure ethanol is 0.79. Water is 1.0, and ice is 0.92.

So, ordinary ice-cubes should sink in a drink which is 50% ethanol (100 proof) or above. I am going to try this in the lab.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 23 2011


Or just make them out of heavy water.
-- nick_n_uit, Jul 23 2011


Could simply be made with heavy water [link] in which deuterium replaces the normal Hydrogen. A bit pricey, but certainly an ice-breaker.

(oops, just saw that [nick_n_uit] beat me to it.)
-- csea, Jul 24 2011


Dry ice works just fine.
muhaha
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 24 2011


+ for [2_fries]!
-- csea, Jul 24 2011


+ for MB's veiled alcoholism!
-- daseva, Jul 24 2011


[MB], i was thinking sugar glass but either way it would sweeten the drink, which is undesirable. I'm also wondering about using oxygen eighteen with deuterium and freezing it into a denser form than the kind of water ice wherewith we usually come into contact. I think some exotic types of ice are stable on the surface of this planet, but i could be wrong.

Edit: Unfeasible that there would be stable denser types of ice made of ordinary water, but deuterated water with heavy oxygen is twenty- two percent heavier, so frozen it would be heavier than water at the latter's densest point.
-- nineteenthly, Jul 24 2011


Use unbreakable glass
-- pashute, Jul 24 2011


Only if you've also got unbreakable teeth.
-- nineteenthly, Jul 24 2011


Embed a little chain in each cube, with the free end attached to a heavy metal weight or anchor.
-- pocmloc, Jul 24 2011



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