Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes

Faster Than Cold

Via Quanta Magazine by Adam Mann

It sounds like one of the easiest experiments possible: Take two cups of water, one hot, one cold. Place both in a
freezer and note which one freezes first. Common sense suggests that the colder water will. But luminaries including
Aristotle, Rene Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon have all observed that hot water may actually cool more quickly.
Likewise, plumbers report hot water pipes bursting in...

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