From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!KING@KESTREL
Newsgroups: net.physics
Title: freezing ice
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.929
Posted: Fri Apr 15 14:33:00 1983
Received: Wed Apr 20 04:53:53 1983

From:  Richard M. King <KING at KESTREL>

	In a manual defrost refrigerator the hot water might freeze faster
because it melts the layer of ice under the place where you put the trays,
so the trays contact bare metal instead of a layer of ice.

	In a self-defrosting refrigerator, the hot water might trigger the
compressor to run.  This doesn't lower the temperature inside the box, of
course (else the compressor would stop), but it does turn on a fan so heat
can be removed from the ice faster at a given temperature.

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