Also take into account that hot water has more
minerals dissolved in it (you can dissolve more of a substance in hot water than
you can cold water--think how rock candy is made). When water freezes it assumes
a crystalline shape that is disrupted by foreign molecules. Luckily so, or
without this phenomenon salt would have no effect on icy roads and all of us in
eastern PA will be stuck in our driveways tomorrow morning.
I've had this experience over and over again. I'll
put warm water out and it has always frozen before ice cold water did.
Perhaps it's OK's humidity or just the air. I have no idea but I know
that's the way it has always been here.
Interesting stuff. I'd heard this and figured it was silly. Guess not.
But apparently it is rather unreliable and dependent on a lot of variables.
However, we never really have the problem of frozen anything here.
Unless it's not having enough ice for the gin and
tonics.....
Susan [Young], The Princess of
Pink Semper Obliquo (Always aside)
Glenndale Grace Farm, Ft Gibson,
Oklahoma U.S.A.
"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that
will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" - Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
