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Title:
Supercooling and the Mpemba effect: When hot water freezes quicker than cold
Authors:
Auerbach, David
Publication:
American Journal of Physics, Volume 63, Issue 10, pp. 882-885 (1995).
Publication Date:
10/1995
Origin:
AIP
PACS Keywords:
Solid-liquid transitions, Other topics in equations of state, phase equilibria, and phase transitions
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 1995: American Association of Physics Teachers.
DOI:
10.1119/1.18059
Bibliographic Code:
1995AmJPh..63..882A

Abstract

Temperature measurements taken near vessel walls show that initially hot water may well begin to freeze quicker than cold. This is not, as previously surmised, due to the cooling history of the water (e.g., air expulsion during heating). Rather, supercooling virtually always takes place. On those occasions where the cold water supercools sufficiently more than the hot the Mpemba scenario is the following: The hot water supercools, but only slightly, before spontaneously freezing. Superficially it looks completely frozen. The cold water (in larger volume than that of the hot sample) supercools to a lower local temperature than the hot before it spontaneously freezes. This scenario can occur more often for ambient cooling temperatures between -6 °C and -12 °C.
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