Mpemba effect

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Mpemba effect

Post by Sanjøy » Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:16 am

Interesting factoid

Hot water freezes faster than cold - and now we know why. - See more at:

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/hot ... 6KzKM.dpuf
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Re: Mpemba effect

Post by j2 lot » Sat Nov 02, 2013 12:54 pm

Knew that it did but didn't know why - still not sure that I know why !?! :?
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Re: Mpemba effect

Post by Ferg » Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:27 pm

I love the domination of the comments by the pedants. I propose/prepose an interesting correlation between consumers of scientific news online and grammar pedantry. :thumbsup
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Re: Mpemba effect

Post by Alistair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:57 pm

So that's why Campbell and I boiled the Kettle before pouring the water onto the path to make our slide in winter - I never did get that - but to be fair I was only 7 :-)

Mum never liked it next morning - wooooops!

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