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Is it true that hot water freezes more quickly than cold water
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If you google on "does hot water freeze faster", there are loads of websites saying yes....and no!!
What this boils down to (sorry about that) is that with equal amounts of water in sealed containers the hotter one will always take longer to freeze, the simple argument that in open containers the hotter water evaporates more while hot and then there is less water to cool down might be true but is really a cheating method.