# An experiment to measure freezing temperature of insulins?

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-experiment-to-measure-freezing-temperature-of-insulins/3123>\
**Category:** Insulin\
**Tags:** freezing-insulin\
**Created:** [January 6, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-experiment-to-measure-freezing-temperature-of-insulins/3123 "2018-01-06T18:23:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/sam/32/10595_2.png) [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/an-experiment-to-measure-freezing-temperature-of-insulins/3123/7 "2018-01-06T18:58:43Z")

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> [@Insulin below freezing -- should we risk it?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/insulin-below-freezing-should-we-risk-it/3120/15):
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> If I was to test either the heating or cooling/freezing, I would likely use a water bath in either case.

But the water baths minimum temperature before freezing solid would be 32 degrees wouldn’t it? And my hypothesis is that insulin freezes well below that… kind of a self defeating experiment

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