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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: boiling hot water, ice , birds, ...
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Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 09:24:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 09:24:37 1983
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I thought that the reason that hot water froze more rapidly that cold
water a lot of the time in home refridgerators is that the temperature
in the freezer actually varies quite a bit depending on whether the
compressor is running or not.  Putting in hot water will probably warm
things up enough to start a cooling cycle.
	Maybe modern energy efficient refrigerators with better insulation
that tend to have their compressors running a higher fraction of the time
do not show this effect.
	+	Donald E. Eastlake, III
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