Hot water frezees faster than the cold one

by Aleksa Boii
Introduction
The article Mhemba effect from a viewpoint of an experimental physical chemist by
Nikola Bregovid, appears from the Mhemba effect, named after Ernasto Mhemba.
The article consist of solution to the problem of and claims that warmer water, in
some circumstances, can freeze faster than colder water. The article made by Nikola
Bregovid is summarized below.
Materials and methods
I started with putting a beaker containing 30ml of water at room temperature with
plunged thermistor into the icebox. When it was frozen, I repeated the same
experiment in same conditions, but the water was preheated to 35 C. I measured
and collected the temperature every second. This is what happened:











Fig. 1. Cooling and freezing of deionised water (V = 30 ml) at 25 and 35 C in a glass
beaker with no cover, without mixing.
The results I got in the Fig. 1. *(case of Mpemba effect) Were expected. Both
experiments were done in the same beaker one by one, the water was changed after
first freezing, the thermistor was placed in the centre. It was really important to make
sure that the temperature inside the icebox were constant. But the temeperature
were far from the constant and they differed from -18 and -10C . Because of this all
the other experiments were done by the same system but the temperature was kept
as constant as it was possible. Some of them are shown in Fig. 2.




Fig. 2. Cooling of 30 ml of deionised water in an icebox with controlled conditions,
without mixing.
This dont expalin the Mpemba effect, bu it expalins all the problems all scientists
dealt with while experimenting with water.

RESULTS
With my reliminary studies I had no conclusions, so I searched for more to find the
answer. What causes hot water to freeze more quickly than the colder one are these
appearance:
1. evaporation of the water
2. dissolved gasses
3. heat gradient induced convection
4. supercooling
I will now discuss the impact of each one.

1. Evaporation of the water