£1000 Prize; Hot Water v Cold Water: Freezing

[K12beano]

So, get your conveyor belts out and stick your 'planes on them for this one...


Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water?



http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2012...

[K12beano]

(You've said nothing about pressure - which is where my pet theory goes..... )

[K12beano]

Simpo Two said:

Are they looking for the real answer or a made-up one?

Tch?! all answers in science are made up! Cf Einstein, Higgs, Newton .....

God plays dice with the ideas, after all!

[K12beano]

My question is whether this is a temperature phenomenon, a materials phenomenon, a liquids phenomenon or just a water phenomenon?

Does this just happen in water, or do all, or any other, liquids exhibit this property. Because my hunch would then be to do with this clever hydrogen bonding that water does and the stable states of water. (Hot water probably naturally emits Higgs Bosuns, you know.....)