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Hot water freezes faster than cold water?
    #720241 - 03/09/14 07:15 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I've heard this argument in my neck of the woods for years. As an engineer, I have my own opinions...but I would like to hear everyone else's opinion on the matter...as well as any explanations for those opinions.
Which freezes faster (ex. in ice cube trays when placed in the freezer)?
You may choose only one


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #720243 - 03/09/14 07:36 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

Cold water freezes faster.

"The Mpemba effect, named after Erasto Mpemba, is the assertion that, in some circumstances, warmer water can freeze faster than colder water. Although there is evidence of the effect, there is no agreement on exactly what the effect is and under what circumstances it occurs. There have been reports of similar phenomena since ancient times, although with insufficient detail for the claims to be replicated."

So I guessss maybe under a certain set of circumstances it can be possible, but usually it's not.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720249 - 03/09/14 08:02 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I have always heard hot water freezes faster. i have no explination as to why, and Ive never thought enough about it to do any research :shrug:


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720251 - 03/09/14 08:13 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

Anybody else wanna take a shot on the other side?

I am about 99.999997% sure that cold water freezes faster in all situations achievable under atmospheric pressures.

I know people who fill ice trays with hot water all the time, and they swear it freezes faster. The only way I could really see this happening is if there is significant evaporation of the water in the trays prior to reaching lukewarm/cool temperatures, thus leaving less liquid water to cool down to freezing (less total heat to remove from the liquid water portion). However, the energy removed during evaporation has to go somewhere, and the freezer still has to remove that energy...so IMO (without doing the thermo calcs) this evaporation would have little/no effect on the required time to freeze the liquid portion.

Idk...just wanted to see how many people have run into this argument, or if I just live in a section of the country with a particularly low average IQ.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #720252 - 03/09/14 08:20 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I heard hot water freezes faster because of the tiny air bubbles in it.
I not an engineer so I'm just repeating what I was told as a young kid.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: KaptKid]
    #720253 - 03/09/14 08:21 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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KaptKid said:
I heard hot water freezes faster because of the tiny air bubbles in it.



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: KaptKid]
    #720254 - 03/09/14 08:22 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

Hot water does not usually freeze faster.

I am suprised everyone didn't know that.

Test it out.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #720255 - 03/09/14 08:23 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I've had this come up in conversation a few times myself. I have a buddy that claims it works. Never tried it myslef.  I've always kinda wondered if it were true or not.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #720256 - 03/09/14 08:23 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

cold water freezes faster than hot water

I dont see how it could even make sense for it to be the other way around. When you freeze something you are trying to achieve a certain temperature known as "Freezing Point," and the closer you start off to FP the easier it is to achieve FP as long as both samples are held at the exact same conditions.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: volcomstoner]
    #720257 - 03/09/14 08:24 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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volcomstoner said:
Quote:

KaptKid said:
I heard hot water freezes faster because of the tiny air bubbles in it.



:havesomescience:


fixed?

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #720258 - 03/09/14 08:25 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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agmotes165 said:
Anybody else wanna take a shot on the other side?

I am about 99.999997% sure that cold water freezes faster in all situations achievable under atmospheric pressures.

I know people who fill ice trays with hot water all the time, and they swear it freezes faster. The only way I could really see this happening is if there is significant evaporation of the water in the trays prior to reaching lukewarm/cool temperatures, thus leaving less liquid water to cool down to freezing (less total heat to remove from the liquid water portion). However, the energy removed during evaporation has to go somewhere, and the freezer still has to remove that energy...so IMO (without doing the thermo calcs) this evaporation would have little/no effect on the required time to freeze the liquid portion.

Idk...just wanted to see how many people have run into this argument, or if I just live in a section of the country with a particularly low average IQ.



There was some old dudes talking about this exact same thing the other day at work and I'm thinking to myself "no fuckin way does hot water freeze faster than cold water" but have heard peoe
Say this and I think that they're fucking retards for believing what they heard from other retards. :shrug:


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720261 - 03/09/14 08:27 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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mjmihalov said:
Quote:

volcomstoner said:
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KaptKid said:
I heard hot water freezes faster because of the tiny air bubbles in it.



:havesomescience:


fixed?



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: KaptKid]
    #720262 - 03/09/14 08:27 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I haven't heard that one before...

I've heard stuff like heat transfer inertia...as in the heat transfer starts out fast because of the larger temperature difference, and it continues to draw heat out at an accelerated rate even after the water cools down to the temperature of cold tap water.

Another explanation I've heard is "It's closer to a phase change".

The rest of the people who have explained it to me say "It works for me everytime" but never seem to have timed it or directly compared a tray of hot water and a tray of cold water.

For all of these explanations...im still :notsureif:


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: volcomstoner]
    #720264 - 03/09/14 08:40 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

Hot water freezes faster.
It's just fact.






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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Stoneth]
    #720266 - 03/09/14 08:43 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I am not watching those videos but is it really a fact?

Like hot water vs. room temperature? and how "hot" is the "hot water"

I guess you learn something new every day, even from a bunch of stoners

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Picklez]
    #720269 - 03/09/14 08:45 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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Picklez said:
I am not watching those videos but is it really a fact?

Like hot water vs. room temperature? and how "hot" is the "hot water"

I guess you learn something new every day, even from a bunch of stoners



It is a fact that under certain circumstances hot water can sometimes freeze faster than colder water.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720270 - 03/09/14 08:47 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

Learn something new every day.

What are these "circumstances?"

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Picklez]
    #720271 - 03/09/14 08:50 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

Last time I experienced this first hand was a month or so ago.
It got down to 9f.
I got in the shower to wash my ass, a few minutes in it became a very cold shower.:lol:


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Stoneth]
    #720275 - 03/09/14 09:00 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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Picklez said:
Learn something new every day.

What are these "circumstances?"



That's the problem, there are no defined circumstances...unless you count modification of an individual body of water's total freezable mass and its heat transfer characteristics through mass loss.

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Stoneth said:
Hot water freezes faster.
It's just fact.








The first video is interesting, but this can be explained by evaporative cooling of the airborne droplets. The evaporation causes a cooling effect on the droplets, and also results in loss of mass. These smaller droplets (which are now at the same temperature as the larger cool droplets from the "cold water" sample, have less mass to cool below freezing, and better heat transfer characteristics because of the larger surface area/volume ratio. Unfortunately, it does not explain why people claim that hot water in ice trays freezes faster than cold water in ice trays.

The second video is also interesting, but misses a key point. If this is true, it would mean that all liquid water would have a higher freezing point, because the "cold water" would never get to its "cold" state without freezing before it got to that temperature.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Stoneth]
    #720276 - 03/09/14 09:02 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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Stoneth said:
Last time I experienced this first hand was a month or so ago.
It got down to 9f.
I got in the shower to wash my ass, a few minutes in it became a very cold shower.:lol:



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Stoneth]
    #720279 - 03/09/14 09:04 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

About 2 years ago, I took two ice trays one with hot tap water and another with cold tap.

The hot water froze a little faster and the ice was clearer for some strange reason :shrug:

Never tried it again with hotter water. I read something about the hot water going through a phase change quicker or some shit.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: niteowl]
    #720281 - 03/09/14 09:26 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

I'll test this right now for science,

:goodnews:


My hypothesis is cold water freezes faster, as it is closer to freezing temps than hot water.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: niteowl]
    #720282 - 03/09/14 09:28 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

if you want ice with no bubbles in it then use hot water thats true.
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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: iStoner]
    #720287 - 03/09/14 09:54 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

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I'll test this right now for science,

:goodnews:


My hypothesis is cold water freezes faster, as it is closer to freezing temps than hot water.




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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: UltimateDevotion]
    #720295 - 03/09/14 10:39 PM (10 years, 21 days ago)

cant write your own responses?

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: iStoner]
    #720603 - 03/11/14 01:04 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

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iStoner said:
I'll test this right now for science,

:goodnews:


My hypothesis is cold water freezes faster, as it is closer to freezing temps than hot water.






so what was your results dude?

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: P-O]
    #720604 - 03/11/14 01:07 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

Hot water actually does freeze faster than cold.. called the Mpemba effect.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: P-O] * 1
    #720605 - 03/11/14 01:07 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

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P-O said:
Quote:

iStoner said:
I'll test this right now for science,

:goodnews:


My hypothesis is cold water freezes faster, as it is closer to freezing temps than hot water.






so what was your results dude?



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Shroomism]
    #720606 - 03/11/14 01:15 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

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Hot water actually does freeze faster than cold.. called the Mpemba effect.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720607 - 03/11/14 01:17 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

NO

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    #720609 - 03/11/14 01:19 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

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P-O said:
YES



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720610 - 03/11/14 01:20 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

Hes made 60 posts on this site in 6 yrs... how the fuck is he gonna be admin.  nevermind a mod.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: P-O]
    #720611 - 03/11/14 01:22 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

Cool your jets bro, I was just messin' around, no reason to get angry and remove me from chat and shit, lol.

Shroomism is a pretty cool guy though.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: mjmihalov]
    #720617 - 03/11/14 01:32 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

I don't want to be an admin.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: volcomstoner]
    #720712 - 03/11/14 03:55 AM (10 years, 20 days ago)

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volcomstoner said:
Quote:

P-O said:
Quote:

iStoner said:
I'll test this right now for science,

:goodnews:


My hypothesis is cold water freezes faster, as it is closer to freezing temps than hot water.






so what was your results dude?



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: nannybooboo]
    #722284 - 03/20/14 11:58 AM (10 years, 11 days ago)

So has no one else tried this yet?


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    #722300 - 03/20/14 01:18 PM (10 years, 11 days ago)

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So has no one else tried this yet?



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: iStoner] * 1
    #722303 - 03/20/14 01:23 PM (10 years, 11 days ago)

I'm almost positive I saw a mythbusters episode about this. Hot does indeed freeze faster, but the amount of time is negligible. I think it was like the outer part froze quicker but the inner part didn't finish until a tiny amount of time different than cold.

It was some kinda science about the molecules in hot water being more active (closer to changing state into steam) and therefore were more receptive to change.

I don't know. I could be 100% making it up.


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    #722304 - 03/20/14 01:26 PM (10 years, 11 days ago)

Someone much try it for the team

before pics (labeled).

and after pics (showing what one froze first)


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    #722308 - 03/20/14 01:36 PM (10 years, 11 days ago)

comments say they are not sold.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: P-O]
    #722361 - 03/20/14 06:07 PM (10 years, 10 days ago)

I'm not sold either.

Covalent bonds are formed by a sharing of electrons b/w two atoms in order to complete their valence shells and achieve a lower net energy state. This shared pair of electrons is not shared equally in H2O. The oxygen atom is more electronegative, meaning it has a stronger postive charge influence from the protons in its nucleus at the point where the electron pair is being shared, and attracts the electron pair more strongly than the Hyrdogen atoms. This leaves the hydrogen atoms' nuclei exposed more often, resulting in a slightly positive charge on the hydrogen atoms, and a slightly negative charge on the oxygen atom.

At the same time, the electron distribution of a water molecule looks like this:


The two unshared pairs are repulsed by the electrons being shared b/w the hydrogens and oxygen. This pushes the two electron pairs and the two hydrogens into a tetrahedral shape around the oxygen, like this:


Each of the four bonds are equally repulsed because the electrons forming the bonds all have equally negative charge. This results in this uniform shape that maximizes the distance b/w bonds. But in water, the hydrogens are slightly postive, or rather their electron shell is less negative, so they are not as repulsed by each other as the other two unshared pairs are from each other. This results in the hydrogen atoms being forced closer together as the unshared pairs push farther apart. This results in the 104.5 deg. bond angle seen in water molecules.

This bent angle results in a slightly positive side and a slightly negative side of each water molecule. When water molecules are close to each other, this slight attractive force begins to influence their motion. This is the hydrogen bond. It is significantly less powerful than the covalent bonds that bind the water molecule together, and is in fact considered more of a pseudo-bond. These hydrogen bonds are so weak, that they are constantly being formed and broken and reformed b/w liquid water molecules, even at cooler temperatures.

This is the kicker, the longer the hydrogen bond, the more energy it stores (according to the article). So, as the molecules cool and slow down (temperature is average kinetic energy of molecules), they are drawn closer together by these hydrogen bonds. The potential energy stored in the attractive force of the hydrogen bonds acts to accelerate the water molecules as they fall towards each other, thus imparting kinetic energy on the molecules. In effect, the stored energy in the hydrogen bonds actually ADDS HEAT to the water molecules, which must then be removed.

What I'm trying to say is, the explanation in that article do not consider the FACT that in order for water to freeze, it must first be cold. When the hot water becomes cold, its intrinsic properties are the same as those of the cold water sample. This means that some sort of mechanism acting independent of the intrinsic properties of liquid water must be causing this effect. At this point, the only explanations that I would be willing to accept are mass loss by evaporation and a stronger natural convection current that persists after the water has cooled down.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #722382 - 03/20/14 08:38 PM (10 years, 10 days ago)

Your use of the term Hydrogen bond makes me unsure if you are talking about the covalent O-H bond, or the intermolecular dipole bond known as the Hydrogen bond.

I'd presume it has to do with the fact that when water is in solid for its crystalline shape is organized by the intermolecular Hydrogen bonding, of which each water molecule tries to have 4 of. I'd say the water originally being hot allows the molecules to move around more, and thus orient themselves by chance into hydrogen bonds. Once the molecules have low enough energy, and chance to be correctly oriented to freeze,  they freeze. It starting with very little energy might just make it take more time for the Hydrogen bonds to orient themselves correctly.

I know this is also a well documented fact that these molecules freeze faster when hot, i don't know how PH may factor in though. That may or may not lead to different conclusions. But frankly most chemistry exceptions are just exceptions.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Thebooedocksaint]
    #722398 - 03/20/14 10:18 PM (10 years, 10 days ago)

I'm talking about both in my last post, but any reference to hydrogen bond is referring to the inter-molecular dipole bond.

The problem is that in liquid water, a large portion of the molecules exist in a 2 hydrogen bond arrangement (they only share 2 hydrogen bonds with neighboring molecules). These bonds typically last on the order of femtoseconds. These weak and temporary bonds also are not confined along O-H--O inter-molecular lines, and may be bent along a curving path between the 3 atoms. This constant formation, stretching, bending, and breaking of these bonds is what allows the liquid state of water to exist. The strength and lifetime of hydrogen bonds further decreases with the increased kinetic energy and increased inter-molecular distances associated with higher temperature. This would mean that hot water samples will be less likely to be governed and organized via hydrogen bonding than cold water samples.

Consider a hot water sample. A high temperature equates to high average kinetic energy. This would mean that all molecules have the necessary kinetic energy to break any hydrogen bond that tries to impart influence it. Because inter-molecular hydrogen bonds are attractive in nature, and because energy is conserved within the bulk sample any change in kinetic energy of a molecule due to hydrogen bonding would mean an equal yet opposite change in kinetic energy to the other molecule at the other end of the hydrogen bond. Coupled with the extremely short duration and weak interaction of the hydrogen bonds, organization of molecules via hydrogen bonding becomes very nearly impossible.

Because of this, I still don't think that any properties that are intensive to H20 can explain why a hot water sample will freeze faster than a cold water sample. I'm not saying that this Mpemba effect doesn't exist, I'm just saying that it cannot be due solely to an intensive property of water being different at one temperature or another. The effect must be caused by some change in the extensive properties of the water sample like mass, dissolved solids, convection characteristics, surroundings, etc.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #722459 - 03/21/14 11:37 AM (10 years, 10 days ago)

H20 actually can hydrogen bond 4 times. Donating twice (two Hydrogen, accepting twice (two lone pairs). Each one is a force of attraction between these molecules. The assumption I entertain, and the one any chemistry professor told me, was that these Hydrogen bonds are probably the reason. I don't know how hot ammonia freezes, but it's the only low weight molecule I know of that can do a lot of Hydrogen bonding like that... I guess (but ammonia is actually worse if it's the only liquid present).

Hydrogen bonding might seem weak, but the Strands of DNA are held together through Hydrogen bonds. They are stronger than your normal Dipole-Dipole intermolecular interaction. Perhaps once the Crystal Matrix begins forming the slightly warmer (than cold water) interior is able to become part of the matrix faster. With all these collisions occurring more often, because of increase velocity, the chance occurrence of molecule hitting each other correctly to cause a reaction is increased.

There indeed probably are other physical characteristics, since chemists themselves don't actually know why. Sometimes you have to shrug and move on when there isn't much more to be done experimentally.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Thebooedocksaint]
    #723126 - 03/24/14 05:54 PM (10 years, 6 days ago)

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Sometimes you have to shrug and move on when there isn't much more to be done experimentally.




I hear ya, and yea from a practical perspective there is no reason to be discussing this. My whole reason for starting this thread was to discuss a topic that has no definite answer. Conversations about topics that have already been ironed out and well documented are very practical, but can get boring sometimes. I have actually learned something from this thread, because I had no clue that the Mpemba effect was an observed and documented phenomena :eek: that shifted my personal opinions on the matter from "this crazy shiz can't even happen" to "maybe I should think about this more..." :cool::thumbup:


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H20 actually can hydrogen bond 4 times. Donating twice (two Hydrogen, accepting twice (two lone pairs). Each one is a force of attraction between these molecules. The assumption I entertain, and the one any chemistry professor told me, was that these Hydrogen bonds are probably the reason.




I understand that H20 has the ability to bond 4 times, and indeed it does in liquid water. 4-bonded H20 (2 strong, 2 weak) makes up about 15% of a bulk sample of liquid H20 at 25oC. However, 80% of that sample is composed of 2-bond H20 (one strong, one weak bond), and 5% of that sample is non-bonded H20. When that same sample is at 90oC, that makeup shifts to roughly 10% 4-bond, 85% 2-bond, and 5% non-bonded.  [Citation Abstract]



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Hydrogen bonding might seem weak, but the Strands of DNA are held together through Hydrogen bonds. They are stronger than your normal Dipole-Dipole intermolecular interaction.




This is very true. However, the reason DNA strands are solid at room temperature is because of the strong covalent phosphodiester bonds linking the "backbones" of each strand. There are also localized charges along the outside of the double helix which further increases its effective melting point. Additionally, in the center of the double helix you have 2 to 3 hydrogen bonds per base pair, all pulling toward the same central axis, this will result in a force multiplication all acting in a common direction. This is not true in a sample of H20, where all hydrogen bond forces are acting in random directions with highly variable force, meaning that the net forces acting on a single H20 molecule will be randomized and not nearly as constraining as the concerted effort of the hydrogen bonds between DNA base pairs, thereby less likely to pull and constrain a molecule into a lattice pattern. Since hydrogen bonding decreases in water at higher temperatures, this lack of effect seemingly becomes more pronounced.

The reason I'm pointing this stuff out is to provide a point-counterpoint discussion. I like discussing why a certain idea could or could not work. This was the kind of discussion I was looking for on this topic. :highfive:


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Perhaps once the Crystal Matrix begins forming the slightly warmer (than cold water) interior is able to become part of the matrix faster. With all these collisions occurring more often, because of increase velocity, the chance occurrence of molecule hitting each other correctly to cause a reaction is increased.




This may very well be the case, and in reference to your comment on the lack of experimental evidence, I believe this would be a good topic for researchers to focus on for future experiments. IMO it seems like the only reason we currently don't know why/how this effect is accomplished is simply because its not a very pronounced effect that works all of the time. This leads to lack of interest, and thus a lack of research funding. It could very well be the case that 5 years from now I'll have to say "Man that dude told me thats what was going on..." :gethigh:


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data]
    #855223 - 01/28/22 01:01 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

As a food industry worker.

No the ice cube trays are always filled with hot water for one reason.


It makes it so theres no bubbles or anything and when they freeze you have nice clear ice cubes for the bar drinks.

Where as the ice in your soda will have white to it where you cant see through it.

Otherwise speaking, plain everyday water on its own and given that mineral content can be different based on location.

Lets say water that is distilled so it is only water. Freezes quickly when already cold.
Where as if I use hot water the process takes about 2 minutes longer, but provides ice i can see through. I cant see through most of it when it goes in cold. And even when using hot if i jiggle the tray too much putting it back in the freezer it will have one or two white colored ice cubes.

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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Adustus]
    #855572 - 02/09/22 08:11 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Damn, I posted in this thread 7 years and 10 months ago.



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: KaptKid]
    #855573 - 02/10/22 08:56 AM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Ok.....but does cold water boil faster? :awehigh:


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: spirit_shadow]
    #855575 - 02/10/22 01:40 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

The colder it is, the longer it will take to heat up.



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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: KaptKid]
    #855576 - 02/10/22 02:00 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

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Damn, I posted in this thread 7 years and 10 months ago.



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Welcome back man!

How's the housing situation going? I remember your shit got tore up pretty bad by one of those hurricanes, was it Harvey?


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: Data] * 1
    #855577 - 02/10/22 09:36 PM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Got my property all cleaned off and a 28 ft travel trailer to live in. All done for free. Trying to decide what I want to build. The good news my property taxes dropped 75%.

It was Harvey.

Looks like I found a new place for an indoor garden. Only got one 1000 watt light but that is a good place to start.

I have missed this place.


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Re: Hot water freezes faster than cold water? [Re: KaptKid]
    #855578 - 02/11/22 06:15 AM (2 years, 1 month ago)

Hell yea man, glad to hear everything is working out for ya.

1000W was all I ever needed when I was growing, but I was only growing for personal consumption for my wife and I.

Glad to have you around again, keep us posted! :highfive:


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