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- From: robear@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jay Michael)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
- Subject: Freezing water
- Message-ID: <85789@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 06:53:52 GMT
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- I am still rather surprised at the thread about warm water freezing faster.
- I was under the distinct impression that it was an old wives tale, and
- that warm water will always take longer to freeze than cold water. This
- is a rather basic and obvious conclusion using simple thermodynamics.
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- I will concede that warm water will freeze faster, in the sense that the
- heat transfer _rate_ will be quite quicker for the warm water than the cold,
- and as it cools off this rate will slow down.
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- Was there any conclusion that we all had aggreed upon? I think I need
- a recap or something.
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- Jay Michael
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