Started by Haruto Sato (@harutos) ·
Does hot water freeze faster than cold?
4 sources · 27 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Does hot water freeze faster than cold?
- Ended at
- Erasto B. Mpemba
The Trail
- “does hot water freeze faster than cold water” (google.com)
- Mpemba effect (en.wikipedia.org)
- Supercooling (en.wikipedia.org)
- Erasto B. Mpemba (en.wikipedia.org)
a Tanzanian student who noticed it making ice cream in 1963
What I came away with
Sometimes, under specific conditions, and it's surprisingly hard to reproduce reliably. Evaporation, dissolved gases, convection and supercooling can all contribute. Not a universal law, and still argued about.
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