Think about it this way...
If you start out with hot water, it has to cool its freezing temperature before it will freeze. Somewhere along the process it will become the same temperature as "cold" water - whatever temperature you choose to define as "cold". It takes time to reach that "cold" temperature and from the point that it becomes cold until it freezes should be the same as it was for water that started out "cold". All else being equal, cold water will freeze faster than hot water.
Notice that I said "all else being equal". There are situations where water that starts out hot may freeze faster than the cold water. As an example - if you fill two ice trays with water - one with cold water and one with hot - and stick them into the freezer, the hot tray will start melting any frost or ice it is placed on. As it does so, it provides better contact with a cold surface that will act as a heat sink as it cools down. Having formed this better contact, it will begin to cool through both conductive and convective heat transfer. The tray that started out cold but which has poor thermal contact with its surroundings mainly cools by convection. Because conductive heat transfer is usually faster than convective heat transfer, the initially hot tray may catch up to the temperature of the initially cold tray and then continue to cool faster because of the boost from conductive heat transfer. Notice that the conditions have to be right for this to occur - the hot tray has to be warm enough to do the melting and establish the good surface-to-surface contact for the conductive heat transfer; there has to be frost or ice for it to be melting, the cold tray can't be too cold or it will start freezing before the hot tray catches up; likewise, the hot tray can't be too hot or it won't catch up to the cold tray; the freezer can't have too much forced convection (fan blowing in the freezer) but rather be primarily natural convection; the cold tray can't be warm enough to melt the ice or frost like the hot tray.
answ2. This was first bought to the attention of science in recent times by Mpemba, and the Mpemba Effect is named after him.
Optimal temperatures for this astonishing experiment are 35oC for the hot liquid, and 5oC for the cold one.
Still not understood - maybe there is a Nobel in it?
Archimedes noticed that in order to freeze a container of liquid, it was better to have it sun warmed first.
It has been proven that hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Yes ,the higher the temperature gradient between the hot water and room temperature, the faster it cools. However, that does not mean that hot water will freeze faster than cold water (a common urban legend). If you have water at 50°C in a room at 20°C, it will cool from 50° to 40° faster than it will cool from 40° to 30°.
Absolutely. Water must achieve a temperature below 32°F before it can freeze. The closer the water is to room temperature, the quicker it will freeze. There is a phenomenon in which warm water freezes and cold water not: In some regions(e.g. Siberia) it is possoble to pour boiling hot water to the ground and it will freeze even before it hits the bottom. This is possible as hot water's molecules are moving more heavily than those of cold water. Therefore the surface of the water is bigger and warmth can leave the molecules faster. I remember a report of a experiment at one of the university's found hot water froze faster by a inute.
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Yes, hot water can freeze easier than cold water. This is known as the Mpemba effect, but the starting temperature of the water has to be at a precise temperature for this to occur.
It has been proven that hot water freezes faster than cold water.
yes
Yes it does. Cold water freeze slower than normal or hot water.
Hot and cold water and a freezer and a timer or stopwatch
No. It takes longer to freeze because cold water is closer to it's freezing point.
The fact that hot water may freeze faster than cold is often called the Mpemba effect
Water will freeze faster than salt water.
no salt water does not freeze faster than sugar.
Yes. Water of any starting temperature must be cooled to 0 oC in order to freeze.
no because the cold water speeds up the process by starting it
Cold water will freeze faster. Because the freezing point of water is 0oC, water that is closer to that point will freeze faster then hot water. This is because it will require less time to lower the temperature to the freezing point.
I suppose that pure water freeze faster.