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Does hot water freeze first?

29 Mar 2006

Since the time of Aristotle, some scientists have claimed that hot water freezes faster than cold. Philip Ball looks at current attempts to shed light on this puzzling phenomenon

On thin ice
It sounds like the kind of question you would be dismayed to hear schoolchildren getting wrong: whic

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Philip Ball is a science writer and journalist based in London, e-mail p.ball@nature.com
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