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Warm and Cool water
« on: November 12, 2006, 12:57:43 PM »
Hello everyone,
Why does warm water freeze faster than cool water?  ???

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Re: Warm and Cool water
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2006, 01:02:28 PM »
Hello everyone,
Why does warm water freeze faster than cool water?  ???

That's an urban myth
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Re: Warm and Cool water
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2006, 01:42:25 PM »
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html

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The Mpemba effect only occurs under very specific sets of conditions and is still not completely understood.
So you have to specify the conditions  :-\, but it isn't clear yet...strange stuff...

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