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From: glp@osu-eddie.UUCP (Georgia Pritchett)
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Subject: Re: Re: Why boil cold water
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 12:03:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 11 12:03:37 1985
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> > 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
> 
>     I also recall hearing that hot water will freeze faster than cold water
> for unknown reasons.  Frankly, I doubt both statements.
> -- 
> Jeff Sonntag
> ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j
>      "I said, 'Doc, a world war passed through my brain.'
>       He said, 'Nurse, grab your pad, the boy's insane.'"-Dylan

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	I don't know about cold water boiling faster than hot, but the
reason that hot will freeze faster than cold is that the molecules in hot
water are more oriented towards the structure that they have in ice than the
molecules in cold.  So even though it may sound silly it really isn't.

			---georgia