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From: sch@dedalus.UUCP (Steve Holzworth)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Why boil cold water
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 10:39:58 EDT
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     There is actually a scientific reason to boil cold water as opposed to
hot (it may not be the pertinent reason, though).  Cold water will boil
FASTER (yep, that's right) than hot water.  This is because the cold water
contains more oxygen than the hot water (now what that does is beyond me).
The above strange fact was passed on to the freshman chemistry class I took
in college.  For what its worth, the professor used to be a research chemist
with Dupont.

						Steve Holzworth
						mcnc!ikonas!dedalus!sch