Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site celerity.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!celerity!ps From: ps@celerity.UUCP (Pat Shanahan) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Re: Why boil cold water Message-ID: <288@celerity.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-May-85 15:12:28 EDT Article-I.D.: celerity.288 Posted: Wed May 15 15:12:28 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 22-May-85 07:42:14 EDT References: <707@dedalus.UUCP> <865@mhuxt.UUCP> <293@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca. Lines: 15 > 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 How does the hot water manage to freeze without turning into cold water first? -- ps (Pat Shanahan) uucp : {decvax!ucbvax || ihnp4 || philabs}!sdcsvax!celerity!ps arpa : sdcsvax!celerity!ps@nosc