Re: Urban Legends and warm water.

["Dolores Arste" <darste@emi.com>]

Also,
If you put warm water in a freeze it steams and effectively looses volume in the freezer.
So, yes less water does freeze faster than more volume. Have fun amazing your friends.

Dolores Arste
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Louisa_Pierce@ne.3com.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:45 PM
Subject: RC: Urban Legends and warm water.


:
:
:
: Urban legends
:
: I thought I'd post a note on warm water during the winter months.  I'm sure
: everyone
: who reads Ride Camp and who live in cold weather climates already  know how
: important it is to make sure your horse drinks water in the winter months.  And
: I'm sure
: most of you already warm your horses water for them.  But I had to post this
: because of
: Urban Legends that Warm Water freezes faster then cold water.
:
: I recently moved to a new barn.  For the past 12 or so years I have always given
: my horse
: warm water to drink in the winter months.  But some of the people at my barn
: (including the
: owners of the barn) look at me like I have 3 heads, and they all say the same
: thing
: "don't you know warm water freezes faster then cold" ?
:
: This aggravates me to no end.  For one thing, that statement makes no common
: scenes at all.
: These people just go around believing urban legends.  So I did some research and
: I found out
: where this quack of a statement came from...and if your all wondering I will
: share it with you.
:
: Back when Refrigerators were invented, cocktail and dinner parties became very
: popular..  People
: were busy hosting parties and serving drinks, but they needed ice cube for their
: 7&7s, they just
: could not keep enough ice cubes per party.
:
: So they found out that if you put a cold ice cube tray in the freezer and also
: put a hot ice cub tray
: in the freezer, the hot tray will freeze faster then the cold tray.  The reason
: this is simple.  Your
: freezer works at a temp at around 40 degrees (depending on your likes).  If you
: put a 40ish degree
: ice cube tray in the 40 degree freezer, it will take about 1.5hrs for your
: freezer to freeze it.
:
: BUT.. if you put a hot tray....say at 70 degrees, the freezer now has to work
: harder to cool down the
: inside of the freezer, so the hot tray will freeze in about 45 minuets  This
: also works with a hot potato,
: or any other hot item you stick in the freezer.  So you can leave cold trays in
: your freezer and toss
: in a hot potato and your ice cubes will freez faster.  So this has nothing to do
: with degree of the
: water in the tray.
:
: Hence this very werid statement that I seem to get on a daily basis :-)  So, go
: ahead and give your
: horses warm water if you like.  And if anyone tells you your nuts, you can tell
: them what you learned
: today.
:
: Louisa and Sultan in Mass.
:
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