Determining whether or not hot water can freeze faster than cold water may seem like a no-brainer. After all, water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. And wouldn’t water hot enough to kill E. coli ...

Hot water evaporates more than cold water. As boiling water cools down, a small amount of its mass is turning to steam and floating away. Hot water freezes faster than colder water simply because ...

Freezing depends on impurities (Vilhjalmur Ingi Vilhjalmsson/Getty) HOT water sometimes freezes faster than cold water – but why? This peculiar phenomenon has baffled scientists for generations ...

Hot water really can freeze faster than cold water, a new study finds. Sometimes. Under extremely specific conditions. With carefully chosen samples of water. New experiments provide support for a ...

Minus-14 degrees is pretty cold. Yes. “Boiling water or hot water evaporates much, much more rapidly than cold water,” said Jonathan I. Katz, a professor of physics at Washington University in ...

It sounds completely counter intuitive: Hot water freezes faster than cold water. It just doesn't make any sense. If you have hot water and cold water, then you should need to cool the hot water ...

File this under "counterintuitive:" Under certain conditions, scientists and curious folks alike have observed hot water freezing faster than cold water. This effect is more than just surprising ...