On 20/01/2017 17:35, Tim+ wrote:
mechanic wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:01:05 +0000, Bod wrote:

Hot water freezes faster than cold.

Eh?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

Tim

We've Finally Figured Out Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
gizmodo.com/weve-finally-figured-out-why-hot-water-freezes-faster-1455906029

Fortunately, now a team of physicists has worked out why it happens.
Known as the Mpemba effect€”after a Tanzanian student who noticed that
hot ice cream mix freezes faster than a cold€”it was in fact first
observed by Aristotle, then later Francis Bacon and René Descartes.31
Oct 2013