In an experiment, water was boiled and ... in concentrations of dissolved gas between hot and cold water. Hot water doesn’t always freeze before cold water either. Specific conditions like ...

Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? On its face this idea seems like it should be ridiculously simple to test, and even easier to intuit, but this question has in fact had physicists ...

Erasto Mpemba, whose name was given to the mystery of why hot water freezes faster than cold water ... The challenge even led to television presenter Jeremy Paxman losing his cool during Newsnight ...