John Bergida, president/founder of Frosty Cold, had an idea for a chemical powder that could plunge water from room temperature to below freezing in seconds while maintaining a slurry state. However, the first formula was hardly inert; it was actually quite volatile and explosive in nature.
Bergida teamed up with a chemist involved in high-level nuclear chemistry, and together, they discovered how to turn the potentially unstable chemical into an inert compound, safe enough to be stored in any environment and made usable by just adding water.