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Water can remain liquid well below freezing in a state called supercooling.

Why it is true

If the water is very pure and lacks crystallisation nuclei where ice can start to form, it can cool to minus forty degrees Celsius without freezing, until it is disturbed.

Source: Thermodynamics

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