<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/982f877f-a56d-46b7-9cad-00b73be49cc3/9B830AA1-26DA-4F40-9229-047DBF66C0AD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html" href="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html" style="font-size: 11px;">math.ucr.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html"><H1>Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html"><DL> <DD>I. <A href="#Yes"> Yes -- a general explanation</A> </DD><DD>II. <A href="#History"> History of the Mpemba Effect</A> </DD><DD>III. <A href="#More"> More detailed explanations</A> </DD><DD>IV. <A href="#Ref"> References</A> </DD></DL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html"><P>Written Nov, 1998 by Monwhea Jeng (Momo), Department of Physics, University of California</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/hot_water.html"><A name="Yes"><H2>I. Yes -- a general explanation</H2> </A> <P>Hot water can in fact freeze faster than cold water for a wide range of experimental conditions.  This phenomenon is extremely counter- intuitive, and surprising even to most scientists, but it is in fact real.  It has been seen and studied in <A href="#Experiments">numerous experiments</A>. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9B830AA1-26DA-4F40-9229-047DBF66C0AD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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