On: The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes fas...

[tzs]

Just a few days short of 35 years ago, this came up in “The Straight Dope” [1].

[1] https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/422/which-freezes-...

[recursive → tzs]

> Jearl suggested that the most likely explanation for this was evaporation: when water cools down from near boiling to the freezing point, as much as 16 percent evaporates away, compared to 7 percent for water at 160 degrees.

[umanwizard → tzs]

Random tangent: TIL that The Straight Dope predates the web and was originally a newspaper column.

[nemo44x → umanwizard]

Well I’m officially old because I:

1) didn’t know Cecil Adams still existed.

2) still remember looking forward to the Straight Dope in my weekly alt-paper.