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 ...

But there’s another extremely bizarre effect going on that deserves a closer look: Something about hot water makes it freeze faster than cold water.

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 ...

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 St. Louis.

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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 ...

One argument is that hot water evaporates, decreasing the volume left to freeze. Another is that hot and cold water can contain different amounts of dissolved impurities and gases, factors that ...