Can jello melt?

BobCrazyton · February 2008

Well i was in school and somehow we got into this topic if jello can melt i say it cant but kids in my class say that they melted jello in class.Prove it to me and you get something cool

Ita+Chups · February 2008

Jello is amorphous, like sirups or glass and certain plastics. It means it's not a solid or liquid.

If you make a normal material ,water, into solid form by cooling it , it will shift the molecule around while you cool it. It does it because the energy wants to rearrange the molecules into a form that's 'favorable'. Just like when you throw a bunch of balls into a box, they will rearrange to fit.

Amorphous materials don't react like that, they cool down differently, they don't have that pattern of changing the material from completely solid to liquid and to gas. They cross over and make up their own unique state.

So you don't talk about melting when you talk about jello's. In the purest definition of the word a jello doesn't melt at all, it just changes to it's own unique state, which is neither solid or liquid.

I think most is correct, lol.

Rikimaru_X · February 2008

uhh it goes back into liquid form if you leave it out or throw it in the microwave....why didn't you just do a test...come on school boy.

paulscott · February 2008

Originally posted by Rikimaru_X

uhh it goes back into liquid form if you leave it out or throw it in the microwave....why didn't you just do a test...come on school boy.

Not if you add corn starch :P since that goes to a solid if you heat it with water.

pirateer · February 2008

From what I know, jello cannot melt. Since it is made somewhat of pig and cattle bones ground up, that would make it a "solid liquid", if you will. Besides, when you squish it up, it just turns into smaller bits. Maybe you should try to find out.

But for the sake of your microwave, don't put it in there.