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minus-squareZerush@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-211 days agoAnyway it’s still not clearly solved, several hypotheses, the Mpemba effect, a almost daily phenomen in which hot water freeze faster than cold one. Excluded evaporation as cause, because the effect is also observed in a closed container.
minus-squareFleur_@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoFaster moving molecules will randomly arrange themselves into a lattice quicker than slower moving ones?
minus-squareZerush@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-210 days agoMaybe, but scientist are still divided about the phenomen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-physicists-keep-asking-20220629/
Anyway it’s still not clearly solved, several hypotheses, the Mpemba effect, a almost daily phenomen in which hot water freeze faster than cold one. Excluded evaporation as cause, because the effect is also observed in a closed container.
Faster moving molecules will randomly arrange themselves into a lattice quicker than slower moving ones?
Maybe, but scientist are still divided about the phenomen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-hot-water-freeze-faster-than-cold-physicists-keep-asking-20220629/