Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?

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  • Observations over millenia and numerous experiments claim that warmer water freezes faster than cold water under identical conditions.
    Supported by Google Making & Science #ScienceGoals
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    References:
    Mpemba Effect: en.wikipedia.o...
    Questioning the Mpemba Effect: www.nature.com/...
    Royal Society of Chemistry competition: www.rsc.org/lea...
    Edited by Trevor Carlee

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  • @Nvrmr_
    @Nvrmr_ 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1685

    You look like that guy from Veritasium

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion 7 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Nevermore Yeah it's Dirk from Veristablium

    • @lucasramosp
      @lucasramosp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Nevermore Yes! His name is Dalek, he is Derek's twin.

    • @user-iu1xg6jv6e
      @user-iu1xg6jv6e 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      He's Derek's evil twin!

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      @AlhunAydin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Yeah! He finally managed to clone himself.

    • @VaregianEisselor
      @VaregianEisselor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yeah, just like the guy from Foo Fighters looks like the drummer from Nirvana. Strange world.

  • @spoolers9090
    @spoolers9090 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3993

    "I thought cold water was supposed to boil faster than hot water"
    -some hell's kitchen episode

    • @lesliee.4525
      @lesliee.4525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +219

      That's why I'm here lol

    • @cs2dailycaseopenings
      @cs2dailycaseopenings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@lesliee.4525 Dude same lol

    • @JustARegularEverydayNormalGuy
      @JustARegularEverydayNormalGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      😂😂i am here becoz of that

    • @flare439
      @flare439 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      yo wtf. i just watched that clip a while ago, and for some "reason" this pop up in my recommendation. TH-cam is surely spying on us.

    • @cs2dailycaseopenings
      @cs2dailycaseopenings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@sentane8031 Got you m8

  • @cyclesingsleep
    @cyclesingsleep 2 ปีที่แล้ว +332

    So, for practical purposes, the Mpemba effect can seem to happen, but in a severely controlled lab, it doesn't...unless a thermocouple is purposely misplaced...but only because we don't really understand everything that goes into the process of water freezing.
    Very clear...

    • @rashidisw
      @rashidisw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Well, in controlled lab its uses most pure water as possible, while in that ice cream making can we truly said it was pure water?

    • @link7417
      @link7417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@rashidisw that is a fair question but for many tens and purposes the ice creams are still equal in many ways but as the last test veritasium talked about explained that even slight discrepancy can change the results for instance if you put in a few grams more or less suger for an example but things like convection could an explanation or contributer aswell

    • @rylestknuckles
      @rylestknuckles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@link7417 "tens and purposes"

    • @BigUriel
      @BigUriel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rashidisw ​I can think of a number of significant ways in which ice cream differs from water. Ice cream is an emulsion with not only various minerals but many different organic compounds like fats and proteins which can change their structure irreversibly when heated up.
      Pure water heated up to 100 degrees and cooled back down is virtually indistinguishable from water that was never heated up in the first place. Try boiling ice cream and then cooling it back down, it'll never look like ice cream again.

    • @dochertyinbc
      @dochertyinbc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@link7417 The phrase is "intents and purposes"

  • @HostileTakeover2
    @HostileTakeover2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    I always find these kinds of things fascinating. Something so seemingly simple turns out to be far more complicated than we know. And the moment your brain glitches when it suddenly realizes just how amazing something normally taken for granted is, that's an amazing feeling.

    • @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741
      @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Repent to Jesus Christ
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      U

    • @fredosslave7558
      @fredosslave7558 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 No.

    • @protercool8474
      @protercool8474 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is always more shit going on than we can know

    • @dsd-downshiftdave8056
      @dsd-downshiftdave8056 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 what on earth does your statement have to do with this video?

  • @kenmendoza7580
    @kenmendoza7580 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7596

    If vsause did this, this would be an hour long video that would include WW2 events.

  • @arooobine
    @arooobine 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19100

    Mpemba was the ultimate hipster. He froze his ice cream before it was cool.

    • @bluesquare23
      @bluesquare23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +421

      Benjamin go home...

    • @xl000
      @xl000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Hipsters are so passé, and so are hipsters jokes. I mean it would have been funny 2/3 years ago, but nowadays I don"t even care about hipsters.

    • @rich1051414
      @rich1051414 7 ปีที่แล้ว +348

      Don't listen to these guys, puns are great :D You guys are focusing on the wrong part, the funny bit is at the end.

    • @trashcat3000
      @trashcat3000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      xl pfff that's so lumbersexual

    • @sexybeast7728
      @sexybeast7728 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      lol this is the second best comment i have read this year...

  • @purpl3grape
    @purpl3grape 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This reminds me of something I've heard about Ice melting in salt water. Normally you'd expect it to melt faster with saline content. But because it dilutes the upper layers of the water, makes it less dense, so there's less mixing going on than there would be otherwise, had it melted in pure water. This thin upper layer of less dense water would gradually become cooler as the ice melts, which in turn makes it harder to melt more ice. It's a weird thermohaline balancing act.
    Without this, the artic ice probably would've been dramatically smaller now.

    • @mann_idonotreadreplies
      @mann_idonotreadreplies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool story bro.

    • @link7417
      @link7417 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mann_idonotreadreplies i find it rather cool honestly

    • @MadDogE134
      @MadDogE134 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      for those of us that actually churned ice cream by hand why do you suppose we salted the ice outside the churn? to keep the ice from melting so fast lol it also aided in making the ice that much colder to speed up the churning process. it was a big deal to have the family together on the weekends to congregate, eat and making ice cream was a family affair. i so miss those days

  • @CaptainRon1913
    @CaptainRon1913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    Funny, my wife and I tested this theory this winter (Northern Michigan). We had been talking about hot vs cold freezing for some time ago. We woke up one saturday to find it was -10F (-23C) outside and decided to put two equal glass 2cup measuring cups full of water outside, one hot, one cold. Filled both with tap water, the hottest it would go, and the other with the coldest it would go. Sat them both outside and watched through the window. The cold water cup froze what appeared to be a couple minutes faster. Nothing scientific, just personal observation.
    We figured doing the test outside, there would be less chance of being off by the freezer temp slightly rising from hot water, and having to pump to get the freezer temp back. Outside would remove that variable, and any variable of the cup sitting next to another frozen object. Both cups were in the shade, and about 3ft apart from each other.

    • @Considerers
      @Considerers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      But did you consider that maybe the warm cup was being heated from the presence of the cold cup (which was warmer than ambient temperature) in such close proximity, and thus caused the warm cup to freeze slower?
      Nah, jokes and science aside, it sounds like you two have a cool marriage. (Maybe because the marriage was hot at the start?)

    • @tomhatherford3283
      @tomhatherford3283 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@Considerers was seriously about to blast you so hard hahahaha glad I read that whole comment. Like the way you tied it all together at the end

    • @firebird2051
      @firebird2051 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Considerers I'm so glad that the effect really doesn't exist... For his marriage's sake...

    • @Rick-the-Swift
      @Rick-the-Swift 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The problem with your experiment is you used thick glass to encapsulate both bodies of water, and therefor the temperature retention (thermal mass) of the glass continued to affect both bodies of water after they were placed outside. IOW the thermal mass of the hot glass kept the water inside from freezing as fast as it could have. You would have done better to put the two bodies of water in thin plastic bags for a more accurate result.
      And after what Will Smith did to Chris Rock the other night at the Oscars, I won't dare make any jokes which involves your significant other, but will just commend you both for being able to endure Northern Michigan winters together. ☺

    • @mtklass
      @mtklass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      One issue I can see here is that hot water went through some sort of heater, which introduce a lot of extra impurities to the water. This is why you don't use the hot water tap when cooking!

  • @spoonmanvlogs5386
    @spoonmanvlogs5386 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4696

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      @-butterfly-594 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

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    • @ollinnature9506
      @ollinnature9506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      But there both a kilogram

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      @erenyalcn9393 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

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      @lemon5501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

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    • @deluxeassortment
      @deluxeassortment 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Ah doon geh it

  • @renz1013
    @renz1013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4216

    I was recommended this because of that hell's kitchen video

    • @Ricky911_
      @Ricky911_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +550

      " I thought cold water was supposed to boil faster than hot water"
      "WHAAAAAAAT????"

    • @renz1013
      @renz1013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +340

      @@Ricky911_ he was so confiused he forgot he was angry

    • @Charles-iy2ec
      @Charles-iy2ec 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      I searched for this video bc of that

    • @braintwo3398
      @braintwo3398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      *sanctuary garden plays*

    • @HeliaBoi
      @HeliaBoi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      WHaT?

  • @aetherblackbolt1301
    @aetherblackbolt1301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +274

    The original story even says "to ensure he had a spot, he put his ice cream in while hot" ie earlier than everyone else. So his hot ice cream had time to be cooled down by the freezer before everyone else could put their cooled down ice cream in. If that time was long enough to be cooled below room temperature, then it would have frozen faster.

    • @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741
      @repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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    • @noone-oi2po
      @noone-oi2po 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 Ok

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      @helixzenith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

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    • @barto22
      @barto22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      No. Some of his classmates already put their ice cream in the freezer and he was getting worried that his wouldn't cool down in time until the others would take up all the room, so he put his ice cream in while it was hot. So there was cool ice cream and hot ice cream at the same time in the freezer, and then the hot one freezed faster.

    • @carltonbanks5470
      @carltonbanks5470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You must have missed teh rest of the video explaining all the scientific tests to control for all that. Including when Mpemba did his.

  • @bledlbledlbledl
    @bledlbledlbledl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    The only instance of that I've personally seen was when my grandmother would splash water across the porch (because the duck pooped on it again).
    But that was a very large concrete porch, and the water spread way out, causing a huge amount of surface area per volume, so it's possible in that instance that most of the hot water could've evaporated, vs only a small percentage of the cold. (It definitely did make a big cloud of steam)

    • @kathrynck
      @kathrynck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If it's really cold out (like Canada cold), you can throw a bucket of water into the air (as hard as you can) and make it rain snow & sleet.

    • @webby2275
      @webby2275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@kathrynck when you throw the hot water I to the very cold air, it evaporates very quickly into steam, but because the air is too cold to hold that vapor, it almost immediately condenses back into tiny droplets, which are smaller than the original hot water droplets, and therefore freeze faster. It's such a cool effect and requires the air temperature to be below a certain threshold to work.

    • @youtubeuser206
      @youtubeuser206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@webby2275 Jew magic, I say

    • @broncosbreaks
      @broncosbreaks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My mom would do that to the porch too, except it was when I pooped the porch

    • @user-by6tn2ud4s
      @user-by6tn2ud4s 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kathrynck ee1

  • @Shane24597
    @Shane24597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2621

    This man really made me question my intelligence for 6 minutes before he threw in "but oh yeah, this effect doesn't exist"

    • @duvan-solis
      @duvan-solis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Under controlled situations. However, some other elements make hot water freeze faster, not like cold water. But yeah, it looks like it's not about the water being hot but the environment provoking effects.

    • @mat5473
      @mat5473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      @@duvan-solis So basically, every time someone witnessed hot water freezing faster in the past, it was just a coincidence due to environmental variables?

    • @outogetyougotyou5250
      @outogetyougotyou5250 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@mat5473 Yes.

    • @user-svqmbiv
      @user-svqmbiv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@mat5473 which could still be useful information to know. I mean knowing how to make things freeze faster would likely be applicable in multiple settings. But it's not an innate property of water.

    • @343JustMe
      @343JustMe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yea that's what I was expecting actually, I was really contemplating and thinking how this just doesn't make any sense

  • @swedneck
    @swedneck 7 ปีที่แล้ว +931

    Vsauce without going off topic 10 seconds into the video, i love it.

    • @Psyberify
      @Psyberify 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tim Stahel LOL right?

    • @baassie123
      @baassie123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Dude, you made me laugh so much. It's almost too true. :')

    • @aston8040
      @aston8040 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tim Stahel I am the 793 subscriber!

    • @nicolevsutedja
      @nicolevsutedja 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it's veritasium/sciencium... not Vsauce

    • @XavierXonora
      @XavierXonora 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I love that about Vsauce. Both channels are great

  • @donovanmahan2901
    @donovanmahan2901 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He neglected the fact that putting the hot mixture in the freezer cooled it to room temperature faster than his classmates' mixtures, which were left out to cool to room temperature, per Newton's Law of Cooling. It then had time to cool from there towards freezing while his classmates were still waiting for their mixtures to cool enough to put in the freezer per the directions.

  • @rong1924
    @rong1924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “You can’t dismiss the Mpemba effect out of hand”
    Watch me.

  • @videogyar2
    @videogyar2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1076

    So... is that a no? Or a maybe? Or sometimes?

    • @kylewilliamrobertson5121
      @kylewilliamrobertson5121 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Yeah I'm confused

    • @iancd9171
      @iancd9171 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      It's a no, because of thermodynamics.

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      test it with your freezer, get 2 dishes with pre-boiled distilled water, make one hotter, add equal amounts of pointy things to them (just add a wet wooden toothpick in each one of them) so no supercooling happens, insulate the bottom of the containers, cover them so no evaporation happens, the water is in dishes so not much convection there, and the water is distilled and boiled so no much gases and salts in there, put them into the freezer and watch what happens from 15 to 15 minutes

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Check and write down when and which start freezing first then when and which turned 100% solid first

    • @Wafflical
      @Wafflical 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Sometimes. But if everything is properly controlled, no.

  • @EEVblog
    @EEVblog 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3187

    OMG don't mention water "memory"! The homeopathy quacks will have a field day.

    • @theresaquinn8525
      @theresaquinn8525 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      EEVblog like Nobel laureate luc montigers experiment

    • @user255
      @user255 7 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      +Theresa Quinn
      His claimed result have not been independently replicated. Thus they are widely considered pseudoscience.

    • @dbanetinc
      @dbanetinc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      EEVblog wow Dave watches Veritasium! Gday Dave.

    • @Ramiromasters
      @Ramiromasters 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Funny you should say that because as black-hole research tells us everything has information coded in it; for it to disappear thermodynamics would have to be wrong. Then we have the facts that super cooling and crystallization is not well understood, as pointed out in here, so is clearly not easy to tell what resonant waves are doing in water. It is a stretch to claim they don't do something as it is to claim they do, however, the crystallization mystery points at that in some circumstances they do...

    • @user255
      @user255 7 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      +Ramiel
      You are confusing what black hole information paradox really means. Example take a hard disk and melt it into pool of metal. Now it really has forgot what was written on it.
      Thermodynamics does not say water have to have memory. In fact, if water would have memory (despite of the fact that it cannot be demonstrated), it would go against homeopathy. Because then water would have memory of absolutely everything it touches, which would make example tap water homeopathic product for and against millions of things.
      Also super cooling and crystallization are quite well understood, and more over nothing to do with memory of water. Not even water.

  • @davep.7099
    @davep.7099 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    It would be interesting to do the same test with small suspended particulates (diatomacious earth would be a good medium, would not effect the chemistry of the water but provide lots of sharp angles for crystallization to begin). Could be the early heating process left more particulates suspended than the water that was left to cool.

    • @kimgkomg
      @kimgkomg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You do that

    • @kyriansalvar247
      @kyriansalvar247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You could probably spend less fine looking at previous experiments and the conditions. In labs, water is all coming from the same source. It's likely they just heated one sample with a hot plate

  • @rhett786
    @rhett786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    my monke brain
    ''FREEZING IS FREEZING, NOBODY CARES HOW LONG IT TAKES THO''

  • @gisnerd
    @gisnerd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +980

    If you feel one day that you have discovered something new and unusual, mind it guys... there is always a Greek homie who found it centuries ago. XD

    • @OtakuNoShitpost
      @OtakuNoShitpost 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      But from this we learn that you can still get it named after yourself

    • @NiqIce
      @NiqIce 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @marios1861
      @marios1861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @2 Nep8id6 surely you jest

    • @nevermindthebull0cks
      @nevermindthebull0cks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@marios1861 Hey, don't be calling them Shirley.

    • @jsmith5443
      @jsmith5443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is a verse in the Bible that says there is nothing new under the sun.

  • @aureusknighstar2195
    @aureusknighstar2195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1235

    "Why are you boiling cold water?"
    "Because I thought it boils faster, Chef"
    *"...What?"*

    • @Pr3Va1L
      @Pr3Va1L 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      There is a good reason to boil cold water, though. Bacteria that live in cold water will die in hot water so you end up with "cleaner" water.

    • @nikemegu1142
      @nikemegu1142 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      If i remember correctly, gordon ramsay was confused because the girl ADDED cold water to already boilling water to boil faster

    • @ewoudjoy
      @ewoudjoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @MineSweeper IIRC, it has more to do with the fact that if you take water from your tap, hot water could be more contaminated with unwanted components stemming from the boiler system or heaters. Impact is not significant of course, but generally people take normal water.

    • @japzone
      @japzone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ewoudjoy True. I never drink hot water from the tap because it tastes awful.

    • @darkdefender9919
      @darkdefender9919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      She a lil confused

  • @TheGreatWolfYT
    @TheGreatWolfYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did an experiment in the winter on this. We filled 2 glasses with tap water, one as hot as possible and one as cold as possible, and threw the water out the window from the first floor. The water from the hot glass turned to powder (snow) by the time it reached ground, not disturbing the snow below. The water from the cold glass didn't change at all and splashed the snow.

    • @N1ghtR1der666
      @N1ghtR1der666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the extra steam from the heated water may be breaking the water droplets into smaller parts which then freeze faster

  • @khall3353
    @khall3353 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well my guess is that with hot water the molecules are moving around more frequently with greater intensity than that of cold water. Whilst the cold water is more calm and still. So I guess that with more moving molecules the water has more overall chance of finding a site to crystallize at. With water that already cold and thus more still would have less chances to find a site for crystallizing.

    • @xrete
      @xrete 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      so stirred water freeze faster?

  • @vesteel
    @vesteel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1102

    VERITASIUM WANNABE

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      hah!

    • @warpedreality7988
      @warpedreality7988 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      vesteel Fuck off, he made this channel, it's in his new video.

    • @ErikN99
      @ErikN99 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Tim van de Goor HAHAHAHAH

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +Tim van de Goor Jokes

    • @Vession
      @Vession 7 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      He even copied the hair.

  • @Incognito-co6og
    @Incognito-co6og 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1108

    "What? " - Gordon Ramsay

    • @martinbudinsky8912
      @martinbudinsky8912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I dont get this... It wasnt Gordon who claimed cold water boils faster but one of the contestants...

    • @Incognito-co6og
      @Incognito-co6og 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@martinbudinsky8912 Gordon ramsay said 'what?' after the terrible logic the contestant gave him.

    • @martinbudinsky8912
      @martinbudinsky8912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Incognito-co6og Exaclty so why would you coment that instead of quoting what the contestant said? This way it looks to someone who doesnt know that Gordon said something stupid.

    • @anazero1592
      @anazero1592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@martinbudinsky8912 bruh

    • @anazero1592
      @anazero1592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@martinbudinsky8912 read the video title then read this comment again

  • @hg60justice
    @hg60justice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    in peoples fridges maybe, where the higher heat makes the fridge run more and the coils stay cooler longer to remove the heat maybe, but like you said, it defies physics.
    i think people get confused in the throwing boiling water into extremely cold dry air and it dissipates instantly.
    cold water doesn't work because it doesn't have the energy to evaporate so quickly.

    • @nates5703
      @nates5703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is the answer. It's not an experiment about the characteristics of water. It's an experiment about the mechanics of refrigeration and thermostats.

  • @drewweber8260
    @drewweber8260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Mpemba effect can only be observed in the right circumstances. At its core, surface area is the main component allowing this effect to take place. Due to a processed called convection, as hot water is chilled, the warm water in the center of the beaker rises to the top of the beaker creating physical movement. The longer this process goes the more it speeds up at a comparably exponential rate. This causes more and more surface area, of the water, to be exposed. However, many other factors can prevent this exponential-flow-process, such as obstructions or even how the beaker is made. Cold water is slow to start this process of convection due, in part, by the fact the water molecules in the cold water are less disrupted by the cold temperatures. This is only my understanding.
    Edit: I also wanted to add. The best way to cool a constantly heated item is by passing hydrogen molecules over its surface area. Factors such as how cold the hydrogen particles are make little difference in cooling the item. The main component is the passing over of the hydrogen Molecules. So in relation the the mpemba effect; As more and more convection takes place, more and more water is exposed to hydrogen molecules.

  • @MFaiz-zm2qp
    @MFaiz-zm2qp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2519

    But does cold water boil faster ?

    • @seemeslegit3765
      @seemeslegit3765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      No

    • @lonewanderer1017
      @lonewanderer1017 5 ปีที่แล้ว +275

      You forgot the Lamb sauce!

    • @KickingItWithCamson
      @KickingItWithCamson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Actually yes, fr

    • @EldeNova
      @EldeNova 5 ปีที่แล้ว +230

      *FACT:* If you mix hot water with hot ice you get boiled ice and it's the source of all energy.

    • @anormalmeatperson
      @anormalmeatperson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Oh now you're doin it

  • @xenaguy01
    @xenaguy01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1218

    I learned that the Mpemba Effect both does, and does not, exist.

    • @kajxqeirscl
      @kajxqeirscl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      Schrödinger's effect I guess

    • @xenaguy01
      @xenaguy01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@kajxqeirscl
      That's both true and false. I guess.
      🤷

    • @DamienDarksideBlog
      @DamienDarksideBlog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      It does exist in real life, since again all the impurities and everything he mentioned would be a part of it. However in a controlled, test environment it doesn't show off?
      I honestly don't get the conclusion of the video. IRL it clearly works but in lab no?

    • @xenaguy01
      @xenaguy01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@DamienDarksideBlog
      _"I honestly don't get the conclusion of the video. IRL it clearly works but in lab no?"_
      Which, I believe, is pretty much exactly what I said, right?

    • @jackfoxx6351
      @jackfoxx6351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@xenaguy01 yup same here

  • @mikeagne5933
    @mikeagne5933 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The convection part makes a lot of sense, and so does the melting/frostlayer I could see those two combining to make it likely to happen in a few scenarios

  • @ToxicFaithPHD
    @ToxicFaithPHD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I did this as a kid by throwing cups of water in the air. The water from the cold cup would just splash in the snow but the hot water cup would form into small ice balls before it hit the ground. This was up in northern canada where it gets -50 -60C no problem.

    • @ChaseBlackmoon
      @ChaseBlackmoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That sort of reminds me of the joke about a Catholic priest, a Protestant pastor and a Rabbi discussing on how donations should be used. Edit: and that's neat that that happened, maybe chaos theory has some insight on this.

  • @andreadedomenico1479
    @andreadedomenico1479 7 ปีที่แล้ว +543

    what will be the difference between Sciencium and Veritasium?

    • @sena167
      @sena167 7 ปีที่แล้ว +245

      this is more like SciShow than Vsauce, really

    • @choppergamer
      @choppergamer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      we'll see I guess

    • @9TAIE6
      @9TAIE6 7 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Andrea De Domenico All the videos on this channel will have this format (illustrations, greenscreen, etc.), instead, on veritasium, videos will vary more widely (chats with scientists, hands on approach to phenomena explanations, occasional philosophical discussions, etc.); if I understood correctly that is

    • @TheV-Man
      @TheV-Man 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      tronchet sorry but I had to mention... That 'fenomena' is killing me it's 'phenomena'

    • @9TAIE6
      @9TAIE6 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Klein Bottle ahaha you are right, being italian I get the occasional 'ph' word wrong

  • @cgaccount3669
    @cgaccount3669 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1599

    It's real. Here are 5 explanations. So in conclusion... it isn't a real effect and doesn't happen

    • @DiabloDBS
      @DiabloDBS 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      5 possible explanations a.k.a. hypothesis or as stated here proposed mechanisms.
      While you could argue why even go indepth with these and not just dismiss them and explain why.. it would probably not make much for a video and people usually like to get something explained before you tell them that it isn't really useful .. no .. wait.. maybe not.. :-P

    • @MrScooter46290
      @MrScooter46290 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      CG Account Thanks for that comment. This video hurt my brain.

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      yeah kinda poor explanation isnt it.

    • @arc3celestion
      @arc3celestion 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @CG Account He didn't say it was real. He said, "According to the Mpemba effect..." which is accurate. In other words, it's like an optical illusion -- real in a sense, but not real in another sense. I didn't feel misled at all. The storytelling needed that mystery to draw the viewer in and I thought the explanation at the end was satisfying, though his, "Here's what I think..." was egocentric, as if he came up with the solution on his own, which he's done more than once. Scientists, not him, did the hard work and found that the Mpemba effect is not replicable every time and that anomalies cause it. But I appreciate his bringing us these fascinating science factoids/facts/findings.

    • @lancewedor5306
      @lancewedor5306 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      He clearly states that there is no Mpemba effect; one learns this close to the end of the video at approx 06:40. Seems clear to me: he presents the idea, explores 5 possibilities for its explanation, finds them inadequate, draws his conclusion. Others' confusion confuses me!

  • @andreykuznetsov8096
    @andreykuznetsov8096 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At equal conditions cold water freezes quicker than hot. Equipment used: two digital thermometers, arduino nano, two plastic glasses, winter outside.

  • @hirni4ever
    @hirni4ever 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maybe it's something like with protein folding, where the energy landscape of the ice crystal lattice looks like an energy funnel, but with smaller valleys on its sides. For protein folding, researchers add small amounts of energy to the system to get it out of local minima deeper into the funnel. Here, it could be similar

  • @n484l3iehugtil
    @n484l3iehugtil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    Can we see an infrared recording of hot water vs cold water being cooled? Then we don't have to keep measuring the temperature of water at specific points with a thermocouple and making measurement errors like this.

    • @fdggfgdfgd251
      @fdggfgdfgd251 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Yea.. but .. IR camera has to be calibrated... and the emissivity and reflection of water .. the surface etc.. make this way more inaccurate
      .
      I dont even think if u did tbe two as a side by side comparison u could justify it

    • @hunterwilhelm
      @hunterwilhelm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The infrared camera uses electricity to operate the sensor, which means that the camera sensor has electricity running through it to capture the image. Electricity always generates heat in electronics so that would affect the experiment if the camera was within viewing of the controlled experiment.

    • @88Timur88Bahmudov88
      @88Timur88Bahmudov88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@hunterwilhelm it's ridiculous, because if the camera heating could affect freezing of water, then your PC would be able to burn your house just by heating up

    • @martinbudinsky8912
      @martinbudinsky8912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@hunterwilhelm Easily avoidable by placing the camera in front of a freezer with seethrough door. The problem is elsewhere and someone already mentioned it here. The reflectivity of water etc...

    • @KnochenGott
      @KnochenGott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@martinbudinsky8912 wait i thought thermal vision doesnt see through glass?

  • @scofah
    @scofah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    I love love love that your video isn't full of unnecessary sound effects and music. Honestly I'm so sick of the audio hype on the other channels. Thank you for just sharing without all that background noise.

    • @elchegos
      @elchegos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think that's because he and his video content is entertaining by itself and doesn't need to add distractions to his videos.

    • @bkailua1224
      @bkailua1224 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I have to agree, nothing worse than silly background noise so common on this venue.

    • @godlyvex5543
      @godlyvex5543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@elchegos Yeah, video games that have music are just compensating for bad gameplay. A great video game doesn't need music.

    • @halalbach1855
      @halalbach1855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I especially hate when the stupid background noise and music is 10 times the volume of the speaker

  • @tombudd1281
    @tombudd1281 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You blew my mind and had me questioning everything for the first part of the video! I even started to reconsider all those times the kids told me the dog ate their homework or that "nobody" ate the cookies!

  • @lrvogt1257
    @lrvogt1257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Slightly off topic but…. I had two plastic 1-liter bottles of Sprite on the back porch which had experienced a very dramatic freeze overnight. Despite being well below freezing they were both liquid. When I touched one the entire contents froze solid in a split second but slow enough to watch the ice expand throughout the bottle. I brought my grade school son out and told him to give the liquid one a light tap and we both marveled at the transition. It’s one thing to know this and another to witness it as an unplanned natural occurrence.

  • @AwesomeCrackDealer
    @AwesomeCrackDealer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    Wtf how did Aristotle freeze his water?

    • @ataozcan23
      @ataozcan23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +253

      he put in freezer duh...

    • @arthurmee
      @arthurmee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      There are snow covered mountains in Geece. Check it.

    • @bobhart7067
      @bobhart7067 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Maybe it was salt and ice. Salt water freezes at a lower temperature then fresh water. Such as making ice cream.

    • @consciousanimusic9293
      @consciousanimusic9293 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      he was a cool dude.

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@bobhart7067 Yeah, but that still requires ice

  • @starwarslore4299
    @starwarslore4299 7 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    This may be a stupid question but how does water ruin electronics?

    • @sciencium
      @sciencium  7 ปีที่แล้ว +361

      by creating conducting pathways for current to flow (where it's not meant to), which can create short circuits and fry electrical components.

    • @bignate2814
      @bignate2814 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Star Wars Lore I'm pretty sure it shorts the part of the circuit by connecting things that aren't supposed to be connected. Due to the high conductivity of water

    • @starwarslore4299
      @starwarslore4299 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sciencium ah that makes sense, thanks!

    • @starwarslore4299
      @starwarslore4299 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      bignate2814 thank you!

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Funnily enough, water doesn't. The ions in it do.

  • @Seveneleven44
    @Seveneleven44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bowl of water at 33° in a plastic dish, bowl of water at 120° in a plastic dish.
    Put them outside on a freezing day and see which becomes ice faster.
    It’s the cold water.

  • @magicalplace3788
    @magicalplace3788 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reminds me of that girl in Hell's kitchen who said to Gordon Ramsay "I thought cold water was supposed to boil faster than hot water"

  • @goldwinger5434
    @goldwinger5434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +435

    In 1971, 7th grade science class, we tested this hypothesis as a homework project. In our home freezers, each of us put six Dixie cups of cold water and six of hot water with regular checks of the state of the water.
    Roughly 30 kids in the class, with 12 cups each, that's 360 samples. As I recall, one kid claimed that he had one hot cup freeze before the cold ones. We all assumed that he was lying because he wanted the attention.

    • @1414yorks
      @1414yorks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Congratulations you have been patiently waiting 50 years for an opportunity to tell that story🤣

    • @goldwinger5434
      @goldwinger5434 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@1414yorks I've recounted that story many times over the intervening years.

    • @vuedanto8576
      @vuedanto8576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Most of the times the right is made fun of by the wrongs

    • @nathanroberson
      @nathanroberson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It’s a trick question. Hot water can’t freeze at all.

    • @Sotanaht01
      @Sotanaht01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      ​@Nathan Roberson Sure it can! You just need around 10,000 to 100,000 atmospheres of pressure.

  • @lavrans00
    @lavrans00 7 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    The channel was created back in 2013?

    • @sciencium
      @sciencium  7 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      hahaha... it's been a long time coming!

    • @warpedreality7988
      @warpedreality7988 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sciencium Let's make the name of this channel the name of a new element!

    • @oneetatsu
      @oneetatsu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i thought the mpemba effect was because the hot water than the cold water like ice is less dense than water so the freezing took place faster as the expansion was already done. like inflating a semi inflated balloon

    • @marlonprofuss
      @marlonprofuss 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tim van de Goor First of all we got to name element 142 Veritasium ; )

    • @matj12
      @matj12 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What does 2.72 mean?
      edit while typing: I realised it's probably approximation of constant e.

  • @ahmadaldayel989
    @ahmadaldayel989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The answer is easy: why does hot glass break if it gets suddenly cold?
    Particles in heat are active and experience sudden cold, such as sudden brake pressure.

  • @nochan99
    @nochan99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here is my contribution; the thermostat in modern freezers will try to maintain the sub zero temperature by turning on the compressor once the temperature of the freezer goes to high and off again once the temperature is back to desired. With a beaker of warm water inside, the compressor will stay on for longer, pumping heat out of the water and into the fridge itself. The water will cool down until freezing, but the fridge might still be warm before the thermostat finally turns off again, making it stay on for much longer.

  • @nic12344
    @nic12344 7 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    What about throwing a bucket of water into the air at -40? When the water is boiling, it condenses to snow before reaching the ground, but when it is cold, most of it hit the ground.

    • @Kratax
      @Kratax 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Exactly, I thought the same.

    • @mariajohnson1744
      @mariajohnson1744 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It's not "snow", it's steam.
      Repeat the experiment and let me know if you can get a snowflake .

    • @bluedemon9985
      @bluedemon9985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Nicholas R.M. when the water is thrown it turns into a mist due to its temperature. As a mist, the water will have a larger surface area and will cool much more quicly.

    • @blizzrd2393
      @blizzrd2393 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, like 'DicksOut' said, I think that has more to do with the fact that the individual steam particles will freeze faster than the water in a more tightly packed liquid state.

    • @DavidAllen_0
      @DavidAllen_0 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A bucket is a terrible idea. Use a cup, you'll achieve finer results. Also, wear gloves. Don't think that the water will freeze instantaneously because if it's hot enough, it can burn and scar your skin.

  • @shimassi9961
    @shimassi9961 7 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    1:44 don't like the sound of those clicking noises. they make me feel uncomfortable for some reason

    • @ShahidKhanPhy
      @ShahidKhanPhy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shimassi do you have misophonia?

    • @RubixB0y
      @RubixB0y 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ai, es no bueno

    • @jorandebraekeleer7557
      @jorandebraekeleer7557 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Shimassi Same here

    • @ShahidKhanPhy
      @ShahidKhanPhy 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      what's your good name? Because I have some form of this condition myself. I don't like munching sounds

    • @piperman69
      @piperman69 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too man, i would like to know why is that

  • @BigJackGameplays
    @BigJackGameplays 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Something as basic as the freezing of water"
    ~ water laughing in the back ground

  • @danqodusk8140
    @danqodusk8140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent presentation. I've pondered this process for several years.

  • @scilabus
    @scilabus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Hello Derek,
    May I ask why a second channel? I would think that this content would fit on your main channel. So I'm curious what drove you to make a new one.
    As always, I love your content ;)
    (my very first video was also about the mpemba effect. But it was my very first video in my life. It was bad! Thanks for this insight about this phenomenon, that's very interesting).

    • @scilabus
      @scilabus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't think Derek does this kind of thing without reason. So I'm curious to know what it is.
      I'm gonna read the comments now (since you added an Edit, I guess there's something interesting)

    • @lavajury44
      @lavajury44 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      It may have something to do with him joining Bill Nye on his new show about science? idk

    • @danhenricus
      @danhenricus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Scilabus Scilabus Well, he's using another format here. With Veritasium he mostly goes to places, his second channel is a behind the scenes and an 'impromptu' video channel. This seems to follow SciShow and the like format; just one person in front of a blue screen.
      I'm curious to see if he manages to find interesting topics that haven't been covered by all those channels.

    • @gabybesombes84
      @gabybesombes84 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I guess that it may be a more "scientific" chanel where he goes in less details and expects his folowers to have a litle bit more knowlege than on the others. At list it's what it looks like to me. I mean, wouldn't he explain what supercooling is on his other channel?
      And if that's what it is i'm in, even if I may not understand some topics, I'll just have to search on my own for the litle details I do not understand ^^

    • @penguinexpress12
      @penguinexpress12 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is actually his third channel, he has 2veritasiun

  • @plur5ever
    @plur5ever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    “I thought cold water was supposed to boil faster!”
    “What?”

    • @theloafdude8304
      @theloafdude8304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      * visible confusion *

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cold water never boils. It has to get hot before it will boil. To prove this for yourself, put some water in the refrigerator and some water in a kettle on the stovetop and turn it on (don’t forget to turn it on). The water on the stovetop will boil if you turn the heat up high enough. The water in the refrigerator will not boil unless there’s something wrong with your refrigerator.
      Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level. That’s hot, not cold.
      I have just used many words to say something that could have been said in one short sentence. I could have used bigger fancier words and it would have been just as dumb.
      Now I’ll explain why hot water never freezes.
      Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
      Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level. That is cold, not hot.
      In conclusion, cold water doesn’t boil. Hot water doesn’t freeze. This is known as the VTI (Vlad The Impala) effect.
      🤪
      Of course Aristotle knew it 2,300 years ago.
      🤨

    • @plur5ever
      @plur5ever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@vladtheimpala5532 You do know that I quoted a Hell’s Kitchen episode, right?

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@plur5ever
      Actually I didn’t know that. I hadn’t heard of that channel. I did see the quotation marks though and I did see the “what?”
      I figured you were quoting something
      I didn’t think that you seriously thought cold water would boil.
      I just figured you were goofing around and I was goofing around too.
      I didn’t mean anything by it.
      Peace
      - Jeff

  • @joeseabert8391
    @joeseabert8391 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When a kid we would ice a hill with warmed hill because we were told it would prevent bubbles so making the ice more solid and stronger for the metal skids to slide on.

  • @griefer1851
    @griefer1851 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This mpemba effect is still used on fast foods restaurants. They serve warm water and put ice on it so it become cool faster when served

  • @bleyz3557
    @bleyz3557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    So we had to listen what is Mpemba effect and how it works and finally we actually gets that Mpemba isn't a real thing.

    • @bobbygushlinger3637
      @bobbygushlinger3637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bamboozled

    • @DamienDarksideBlog
      @DamienDarksideBlog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not in a lab. Also they removed the "freezing" and just went with "Get to 0 degrees" which is not what we were looking for, but cool.
      It works, and science can control it in labs if they try really hard. The video did an absolute piss poor job at the last third.

    • @kaleb982010
      @kaleb982010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DamienDarksideBlog 0 is freezing my man.

    • @asphorcata
      @asphorcata 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kaleb982010 nah man, i think 0 is like the "grey area" where there is still some liquid and some freezing. solid freeze start at -10. but yeah this is my real life condition, not the controlled environment so maybe there is some explanation needed

    • @_RiseAgainst
      @_RiseAgainst 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@asphorcata pure water a 0° and 1 atmospheric pressure will freeze eventually. The hot vs cold was simply measuring which freezes quicker. The video does a bad job of differentiating between first to zero and first to freeze experiments.

  • @ferdyhoshigakitube
    @ferdyhoshigakitube 7 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    how Aristotle freeze water?

    • @ferdyhoshigakitube
      @ferdyhoshigakitube 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No Google, I don't want to use my real name. but how did he do the comparison ?. when he boil water in mountain, the regular water must be already frozen

    • @ferdyhoshigakitube
      @ferdyhoshigakitube 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No Google, I don't want to use my real name. lol right

    • @svampebob007
      @svampebob007 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the problem is that you basically start the timer for number 1 as soon as you take it off fire, so number 2 should freeze two minutes after number 1 since they both experienced the same source of heat.
      if number 2 freezes before number 1, then you might need to question the experiment, because wtf changed? air speed? temperature? how does H2O at 100c cools down faster then H2O at 100c that has been out for 2 minutes? would number 1 freeze faster if you heated it back up again to 95C while number 2 was nearing 90c?
      Aristotle was a very clever man, but his methods were bound to be slightly wrong, physics says Energy in = Energy out.. unless you add or subtract energy.
      the idea of hot water freezing faster then cold water invites the idea of a perpetual motion machine.

    • @johnjon4688
      @johnjon4688 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      except that it actually doesn't on a consistent and repeatable basis. did you watch the video to the end?

    • @MartinVaupell
      @MartinVaupell 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well he used his Freezer of course, power by nuclear power.
      Or as some "homeopaths" call it, nature.

  • @Emerald29
    @Emerald29 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This the one girl from hells kitchen watched.
    She just remembered incorrectly and did it backwards lmao

  • @mythicaltwinkie8216
    @mythicaltwinkie8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how a simple yes or no question is drawn out into a 7 minute video

  • @bryanong4879
    @bryanong4879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Answer: No but small tweaks like moving the thermocouple causes different rates of freezing which is cool. OK go and have a rest and save the 7min. Or just watch it anyways as it is kinda interesting.

    • @frantisekfojt8688
      @frantisekfojt8688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If someone us watching this it's in order to waste 7 minutes

    • @cozmic8288
      @cozmic8288 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      gg

    • @DrakeOola
      @DrakeOola 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Moving the thermocouple aka a temperature sensor didnt cause the water to freeze at a different rate. They put it in the beaker to see if there were any convection currents present, basically just hot water and cold water mixing to "stir" the water in essence. We don't have any type of sensor to really measure water flow on such a tiny scale in existence although they could've just put a drop of dye. They mentioned the beakers were sealed in some tests and even a drop of dye could fudge the experiment so probably why they didnt try that. Also has to be introduced at the right time otherwise it'll just mix before the water finishes boiling...

  • @flap.d.jack247
    @flap.d.jack247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    This is the opposite of:
    „I thought cold water boils faster than hot water“

    • @Jay-nj1oz
      @Jay-nj1oz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A man of culture

    • @zoowing2635
      @zoowing2635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was surprised that youtube recommended me this video under the other (meme) video after I read a comment arguing about this exact same problem.

    • @MrChillyZ
      @MrChillyZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      WHATTT **confused gorden ramsey face**

    • @Not_Claptrap
      @Not_Claptrap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I actually believed this was true for years

    • @flap.d.jack247
      @flap.d.jack247 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Not_Claptrap *confused Gordon Ramsay face*

  • @programaths
    @programaths 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One should not forget that a similar effect called "hysteresis" do exists. As an example, if you have a spring on which you attach 2 weights of same mass one after another or attache the two mass at the same time, the spring extension will be *different*!

  • @davinsoro8582
    @davinsoro8582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This immediately reminded me of the clip of Gordon Ramsay getting mad at the chef who thought cold water boiled faster

  • @hensontm
    @hensontm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    'did you top it off with cold water'
    'Yes chef'
    'why'
    'i thought cold water would boiled faster than hot water'
    'whaaaaat?'

    • @hjalmarnilsson1756
      @hjalmarnilsson1756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then the water is not cold

    • @briea3438
      @briea3438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He added cold water to the hot water in the pot.....he made it warm vs the boiling it was at already. It's like throwing ice in ur hot tea, then being confused that it doesn't stay hot.

  • @azlhiacneg
    @azlhiacneg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Ooo this is pretty cool.

    • @sciencium
      @sciencium  7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I should have known you'd be first!

    • @azlhiacneg
      @azlhiacneg 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sciencium Well... I mean... I just finished some homework and was refreshing TH-cam at the right time~ :D

    • @kisileno
      @kisileno 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      azlhiacneg as cool as freezing warm water?

    • @checkoutthatthing
      @checkoutthatthing 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pun city!

  • @dannyzumwalt
    @dannyzumwalt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I always imagined (had it been true) that some kind of thermal inertia or momentum was at play. The hot water is at a greater temperature differential which causes it to cool to 0C slower overall than the cold water, but at a faster rate of change, which in turn causes it to freeze sooner. No? Oh well.

    • @Joesolo13
      @Joesolo13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It will lose heat at a higher initial rate, but that's time the cooler one is already using to get colder
      Its like if there's a triathalon that starts with cycling, but the cold one gets to skip it. It covers more distance faster but the other doesn't have to cover as far

  • @GeneticHybrids
    @GeneticHybrids 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The other thing about experimenting with this theory is that it is impossible to get any reliable data when someone puts both cups in the same freezer because the added BTU's from the cup of hot water will ultimately slow the freezing process of the cup of cold water. What I think happens in most cases is that because of the large delta T the hot water has more condensation forming than the cold water and that condensation can freeze more quickly. So the hot water may have some ice forming on it quicker but there is no way it can freeze solid faster than a cup of cold water...trust me as a guy who makes frozen water with a natural gas flame ( absorption cooling) if the cold water and hot water are separated into equal lab controlled environments at 31° F at atmospheric pressure. The cold water with fewer BTU'S will always freeze solid faster than a cup containing more BTU'S of heat. It's a refrigeration thing you have to understand how refrigeration works! A refrigerant, compressor, condenser coil and fan, evaporator coil and fan, can only take out BTU'S at a given rate. So if equipment is equal and compressor cycle times are equal more BTU'S in water always equals more energy and time for that water to freeze solid. Its basic physics!

  • @independentomega2701
    @independentomega2701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    I learned from this video, that in real life the effect exists. But if some scientists in a lab want to try really hard, they can remove it.

    • @23Khameo
      @23Khameo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      What we have to take away from this is that scientists couldn’t come up with an answer as to why this happens. Also this contradicts our current knowledge of thermodynamics and finally that it was easier to find a way to negate the effect. So all in all they found it easier to say fuck it and claim that is not a real phenomenon. Way to go science! 😂

    • @mauer1
      @mauer1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Well they basically proofed that it doesnt matter how warm or cold water is for the time it needs to freeze.
      r at least, it doesn't matter as much as litterly everything around it. So you may or may not be faster with freezing hot water, but you definitly know you would have been if you tried it with cold water in that exact same circumstance.
      which is funny because people knowing this would still take the chance of beeing faster with warmer water for whatever reason.

    • @wingedfish1175
      @wingedfish1175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mauer1 beacsue its better to take a chance on something taht people believe exists then to just ignore it and achieve the same result anyway

    • @mauer1
      @mauer1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@wingedfish1175 well thats the thing though, it is indeed faster to freeze cold water. To make the decision to use warm water is just nonsense. because it definitly is worse than cold water.
      It just might not matter if you wanna race against someone with it.

    • @prefrontalcortex2602
      @prefrontalcortex2602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well it seems to me to be result of an out side source much less than heat plus water cools faster its possibly a combination of multiple easy to reach scenarios to attribute this effect. Instead one explicit answer futher study may yield that for example just spit balling that going to a high/varying pressure; source heated water to a low pressure source a fridge may yield results. Or bubbles increasing top surface increase surface area may freeze faster. Or even better yet what the last study cited that in the direct center doesnt actually change faster just it is perceived since the out side solidify faster. But when you average out the heat then disproves it. Other wise super cooling may actually be the key to the answer. Im no expert by any means but brushing it off weither its true or not isn't going yield a explanation what actually happened

  • @icecreambone
    @icecreambone 5 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    so... are there just enough variables that there's a big range of cooling speeds for both hot water and cold water that overlap and allow people to witness hot water freezing faster often enough to be psychologically relevant but not statistically significant

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      conti nue Exactly right! I wish he'd explained it as clearly as you have though!

    • @simedinson984
      @simedinson984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sounds about rigth

    • @David-ud9ju
      @David-ud9ju 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah. The studies were testing the Mpemba effect and they found it. Surprise surprise.

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      David um no that's not the point at all

    • @markcundiff1697
      @markcundiff1697 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Apparently he never studied thermondynaics!

  • @DannyHeywood
    @DannyHeywood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My theory has always been that as the heat escapes faster and it has to be replaced with the freezing air around it.

  • @ProfessorDBehrman
    @ProfessorDBehrman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You gave a rather brief treatment of the second explanation. In fact, water will degas rather quickly when heated, but gases will redissolve only rather slowly as the water cools. Consequently, water that has been heated will (temporarily) be relatively degassed, compared with water that has been sitting around for awhile at a cool temperature. This explains the effect observed by many people that their hot water pipes freeze sooner than their cold water pipes. Of course, water in the hot water pipe was not "hot" when it froze, because water in a hot water pipe quickly cools to ambient unless the water is running.

  • @NappyWayz
    @NappyWayz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    Just start at 5:55 for the answer.

    • @jennacook2505
      @jennacook2505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +

    • @dirtyweapons3459
      @dirtyweapons3459 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Jesus thank you

    • @kc-ip2vc
      @kc-ip2vc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He says that hot water cools faster in about the first minute

    • @ducatimikep
      @ducatimikep 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for that

    • @Toutong_
      @Toutong_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kc-ip2vc
      And in reality it does not.

  • @tabaks
    @tabaks 7 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    No, I did not learn anything from this video except that anything can be fruitlessly argued for a desperately long time.

    • @adamxue6096
      @adamxue6096 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I learned something from it, the 5 ways of explaining it was actually pretty cool, I knew before that the more heat an object has it loses that heat energy faster(That been like comparing 2000 down to 1000 and 1000 down to 0, the speed of two material cooling down the same amount of Celsius but one with higher temperature will cool faster), but the hot water thing is something I know but don't understand exactly how and why it works like that, simply because u can't possibly under the same condition having a thing that has more heat energy than another one, and have them both cool down to a certain amount of heat energy.
      So this video did help, it is also good to know.
      Btw, Scientists are pretty BS at times like this, because you simply can't prove it, therefore the conclusion is it doesn't exist... Yet... When you can it is true, no matter how stupid it seems.
      Also any effect might one day come in handy, and when you think about this, if people can spend years talking about toilet paper orientation, and where to start eating a banana, I don't see a problem with people trying to explain and uncover the truth behind a thousand years old question that is very interesting and hard.

    • @iwantitpaintedblack
      @iwantitpaintedblack 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I always thought hot things cool down faster because of the large temperature difference , so if Delta temp is large, cooling will be faster

    • @brandonrodriguez3027
      @brandonrodriguez3027 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I did hot water freezes faster beause of the particals

    • @jacoblandry9377
      @jacoblandry9377 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      i know its like stfu and cut to the chase i could of explained the mpemba effect in like 10 seconds

    • @David-ud9ju
      @David-ud9ju 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nateman10 You're full of shit. Your clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Scientists don't fucking make stuff up to make it easier for themselves you dumb prick. All this so called documentation was actually wrong and it's actually an extremely complicated thing to describe. You clearly are completely ignorant of science and how science works, so why are you here?

  • @Seddysaid
    @Seddysaid 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can tell in the first few sentences you said, the 1st student let his cool before putting it in the freezer, not actually put it in the freezer at the same time as the one who put the hot water in the freezer.

  • @TheLazyVideo
    @TheLazyVideo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wouldn’t chilled fog be a better conductor than dry air? Cold water doesn’t create fog/mist when placed in a freezer. By contrast, hot water immediately creates fog. This fog then condenses and chills on the outer walls of the beaker, and freezes. So even after spending additional time, initially, to reach the cold water temperature, it then has an added boost of ice clung to the outer walls of the beaker.

    • @CyanYT
      @CyanYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      how can it freeze on the beaker if the water is still above freezing? If it's freezing then the liquid in the beaker must also be cool, which doesn't permit evaporation.
      You created a paradox.

  • @SH-lb1nu
    @SH-lb1nu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Imagine discovering something Aristotle discovered and getting credit for it lol? Like wtf

    • @duvan-solis
      @duvan-solis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He just give a blunt observation. The other guys gave input, I don't think it's about credit but conclusion, each of the guys took the experiment under different circumstances.

    • @evidad
      @evidad 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look up Stigler's law of eponymy

    • @Nexus9118
      @Nexus9118 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's because there was research data not just observation. Remember, the difference between messing around and science is writing it down (Quote by Myth Busters).

    • @joemilton7552
      @joemilton7552 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      imagine the thing that they both discovered doesn't even exist at all

  • @piotrkakol1992
    @piotrkakol1992 7 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I don't understand the reason for Mpemba effect not existing after all. Even if there was a study which showed that warm water doesn't freeze faster than cool water it doesn't rule out all these experiments which agreed that there's something like Mpemba effect. It just shows that Mpemba effect might need some additional conditions. The condition might be that cool water was poured to the container, then the other water was boiled and only then poured to another container. So the boiling water was moving more than the cool water and thus the states of waters were not the same. That's probably wrong but it's just an example of a condition for boiling water to freeze faster.
    The argument about measuring the temperature in different places also don't satisfy me because how improbable would it be for everyone to luckily measure both waters in such spots so that it appeared that the effect takes place.
    And lastly, I don't think it would break the laws of thermodynamics. It wouldn't mean that water has memory of its earlier states. It would only mean that we're only considering the temperature of the water and not other properties like directions of every molecule. So the water has no memory but contains more information than we assume.

    • @MrBiky
      @MrBiky 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am no professor in thermodynamics or physics in general, but don't some elements have better conductivity? Like for example copper vs aluminum. I know these are different elements, but let me get to my point. Probably different states of elements release heat faster than others.
      In this case it's room temperature water vs hot water, which have different energies, so wouldn't it be logical that the hot water releases its energy (heat) faster? When I was a kid, I used to put hot water and cold water in an unsealed ice tray in the freezer and always when I checked on them, the hot water was frozen solid, while the cold water was liquid in the middle and has a layer of ice on the outside.
      My theory might be wrong, but I want to learn / understand, so easy with the political correct answers / replies. Thanks !

    • @eagames456
      @eagames456 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hot water does indeed release energy faster, but in doing so it reduces the temperature. At some point that temperature will be the same as the starting temperature of the cold water, thus it would cool at the same rate as the cold water. It would then follow the same curve as the initially cold water.

    • @johnjon4688
      @johnjon4688 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The result only states that hot water does not reach 0C faster than cold water. Not that hot water put in a freezer wont freeze faster than cold water. Due to so many things affecting the actual point of state change, there are literally a fractal's worth of possibilities. It is one of those tricky things that is a little more difficult to picture than it is to describe and is therefore more difficult to comprehend through non-mathematical (non-statistical) means. It doesn't help that water in general does not like to behave consistently on the molecular level. It is very prone to influences that are difficult to negate/control.

    • @gluino
      @gluino 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was what I wanted to say, but you put it clearer than I could.
      I would like to see someone *try* to (and succeed) determine what some of these "additional conditions" are that *will* produce the Mpemba effect that were reported in the past by experimenters that we assume were less careful in their procedures.

    • @hunszaszist
      @hunszaszist 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is a great point. We often use approximations that almost match the things we see. Sometimes we forget that it is small things that contribute to the existence of all large things. It _could_ be some quantum scale change in the water that might contribute to this result.
      Though I rather like the convection hypothesis myself.

  • @TheRanguna
    @TheRanguna 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For those wanting just an answer to the question: 6:30

  • @rithrius5384
    @rithrius5384 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hell's Kitchen contestant: _"I thought cold water would boil faster than hot water."_
    Gordon Ramsay: **Visible confusion**

  • @mikeeiben3430
    @mikeeiben3430 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I once filled 2 ice cube trays, one with cold water, the other with hot. Put them in a frost free freezer with the cold air blowing on both of them. The cold filled tray definitely had a crust of ice over it first. But if you throw a cup of boiling water into the air in sub zero weather, it will evaporate into a frozen cloud before it hits the ground. Cold water will still be a liquid when it hits the ground. The rapid movement of the molecules in boiling water causes them to separate in the air allowing them to freeze instantly.

    • @TechDiveAVCLUB
      @TechDiveAVCLUB ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Matches convection arguments

    • @themenace_omnyoji4141
      @themenace_omnyoji4141 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      basically the same as if you were in a cold room with a group of people youd freeze faster than if you were all huddled up together

    • @WholeCosmos
      @WholeCosmos 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hot water vaporizes more easily at low pressure too it's why water boiling on Mt. Everest never gets hot enough to cook pasta. I bet the places that get sub zero are at high elevation and low atmospheric pressure in the demonstrations. The vapor gives off it's heat more rapidly because of the increased surface to volume ratio of water droplets. It's also why steam burns more badly in a short time than boiling water more heat transferred more rapidly its just the heat going the opposite way. heat of vaporization is why boiling water holds it's temp the extra heat escapes with the vapor. tossing it in the air speeds up the vaporization process and hence heat transfer. the cold water never vaporizes. If you could spray the cold water out of a warm nozzle (so the nozzle doesn't clog with ice ) to match the vapor particle size they would freeze at the same speed.

    • @themonsterunderyourbed9408
      @themonsterunderyourbed9408 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The whole "throwing hot water evaporates" thing is the same as your breath. In the cold, you can see the warm water vapor in your breath. If the air coming out of your lungs was the same temperature as the outside air, you wouldn't see your breath.
      The hot water doesn't "freeze" when thrown into cold air. It evaporates very fast (it would evaporate slower in warm air).
      When most of it evaporates, it might leave a few bits of liquid water which will instantly freeze depending on how low the temperature is outside.
      If you misted cold water into cold air, it would freeze just the same as the "mist" that's left after most of the hot water evaporates when you throw it in cold air.
      Hot water DOES NOT freeze faster that cold water.
      The freezing point of water is always different from collection to collection based on different mineral contents.
      The Mpemba effect has been observed to be both true and false in controlled experiments.
      Basically, if EVERY variable is identical, hot water WILL take longer to freeze because it has more energy to dissapate than cold water.
      But water is never "just water" and that's why sometimes hot water freezes faster than cold water and sometimes it doesn't.

    • @WholeCosmos
      @WholeCosmos 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@themonsterunderyourbed9408 it's very predictable by the triple point on a phase transition graph. It's basic chemistry and physics. Pressure and temperature are key to phase transitions. Also water has hydrogen bonding without which, based only on molecular mass water should be a gas at room temperature. But it is liquid due to the polarity or dipole moment of the water molecule leading to hydrogen bonds. Solutes or dissolved salt ions and other particles in water can effect the phase transitions by interfering with the hydrogen bonds by lowering the freezing point or boiling point at standard pressure for example. The Empemba effect is not a real effect... it's a misinterpretation of the phenomenon of supercooling of the water that was not heated first. Water that is both relatively pure and is in a very smooth sealed container, so there is no nucleation point for a crystal to form can cause this super cooled liquid water phenomenon. Usually the vessel is sealed so the pressure above the liquid drops adding a confounding variable. In Canning food a vacuum seal forms by this drop in temperature and therefore pressure inside the cooling jar relative to the outside when the gasses condense as they cool. The water can sometimes drop below the freezing temperature in this circumstance and remain liquid. It's like a beer from the freezer that instantly freezes when it is opened or disturbed. The alcohol and CO2 are interfering with the hydrogen bonds that also contribute to crystallization. Water when boiled maintains 212 degrees because the extra heat is given off by the phase transition to gas as the hydrogen bonds are broken at the surface tension. Break the hydrogen bonds and cause vaporization. smaller droplets of water have less surface tension as does water being heated. While it is heated the bonds get weaker and weaker until steam can escape. The temp at which this happens depends on the pressure and temperature of the atmosphere on top of the water surface. At zero or much lower pressures the water will boil at much lower temperatures than 212 F at a certain pressure or negative pressure relative to the atmospheric pressure well below 14.7 PSI or 760mm Hg water can boil at room temp. If you put a vacuum pump on a sealed jar of water you can get it to boil at room temperature.

  • @sakshamadhar
    @sakshamadhar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    *Yes you are not the only one after Gordon ramsay video*

    • @Oscar-en6rs
      @Oscar-en6rs 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      what. the. fuck.

  • @ossiebalboa5617
    @ossiebalboa5617 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In older freezers, the shelves themselves were made with the freezing cold evaporator tubes which always iced up. The hotter container melted this ice , which refroze and made very good contact with the container, allowing greater transfer of heat away from the container into the evaporator tubes. The less hot container did not melt the ice and had poor heat transfer.

  • @richardcollind2421
    @richardcollind2421 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in Alaska and there is a trick that you can do below -40 or so where you boil a pot of water and throw it in the air and it's frozen before it lands. It doesn't work with cold water though, always wondered why.

  • @such1997
    @such1997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Sounds like Schrödinger's Mpemba Effect to me!!

  • @MrRowskey
    @MrRowskey 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I would say the effect isn't one of warmer water reaching 0 degrees faster, but in fact freezing solid more quickly once it reaches zero due to an effect on nucleation.

    • @wtfuredead
      @wtfuredead 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      that is the most plausible one

  • @dillo12567
    @dillo12567 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Descartes explained it, when you boil water it changes the strength of the bonds between the molecules. So when you freeze it, the bonds bind faster. Its a molecular physics question.

  • @balloonwind2863
    @balloonwind2863 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I did not see that twist coming...

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    so in short Mpemba effect wasnt real because it wasnt because the temperature that affect the speed of water freezing but something else that just happen to be really hard to notice or to be included in the controlled variable?
    interesting

    • @zeromailss
      @zeromailss 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh right long time ago I watched a video about mpemba effect and it said we are still not sure yet but that was before 2016 which is when they finally figure it out so yea

    • @jimmytenname2451
      @jimmytenname2451 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zeromailss i'm just gonna try itmyself

  • @MeowO_O
    @MeowO_O 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Actually you're not taking into account of explanation 6:
    Hot water: The thermostat in the refrigerator detected that the temperature is not low enough, and therefore blasted the inside of the refrigerator with cold air, with the compressor running at 100% the whole time
    Cold water: Refrigerator chills water slowly, running compressor at a lower work load to increase power efficiency.

    • @davidpool3424
      @davidpool3424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm pretty sure that was taken into acconut in the controlled environment. Pro's/scientists controlled every variable, and still failed.

    • @krossF
      @krossF 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      but theyre putting both containers in the same freezer/fridge, therefore both containers would be blasted with extra cold air and the colder water should still freeze faster

    • @MeowO_O
      @MeowO_O 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, but in a real life scenario, you wouldn't freeze hot and cold water at the same time in the same fridge.
      For example, you boil water (water is not safe straight out of tap in most countries) and you are super thirsty, but the water is too hot to drink, therefore you put it in a freezer.
      -----------
      Even in a controlled scientific experiment, they will still separate hot and cold water into two identical freezers or two separate runs with the same freezer. This is because some would argue that the air temperature directly around the cups will contaminate the results.

  • @An0nymous_L0gic
    @An0nymous_L0gic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i was eagerly anticipating how the auto CC would interpret Mpemba. dunno if the same word was ever repeated. enthralling

  • @christopherjohnjones-parke5026
    @christopherjohnjones-parke5026 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You just blew my old ideas out of the tepid water. Damn son.

  • @thehesk1941
    @thehesk1941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Bruh I saw this in my recommended and read the channel name as "Sciencecum"

  • @emsity819
    @emsity819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Me searching i thought cold water was supposed to boil faster on youtube: ok easy
    Me after 3 hours:where the fuck it is

  • @shadowkomet7180
    @shadowkomet7180 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    pressure, and the distance at which water forms crystals. Hot equals low pressure, distance increases to crystallization which reduces or stops particle vibration, that vibration that gives us part of the sensation of heat. Water Crystals also deflect or insulate infrared, the other part that gives us the sensation of heat.
    this is just a hypothesis, but there you have it with what we already know about heat, water, and their various effects.

  • @ianhitachi
    @ianhitachi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    my guess on this effect, is this. when water is warmer than its environment, the molecules are in state of cooling down already before it goes into the cooler, and it might be that the cooling speed, just like velocity, is easier increased when its higher at the start. the cold water already is on equilibrium, and the cooler has to break the equilibrium which might slow the cooling effect down.

  • @mattybianconi5424
    @mattybianconi5424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Since hot water gets cold at an accelerated rate, could it create increased chances of inconsitencies in the water (like holes which would end up freezing), which would begin the freezing effect before cold water creates the inconsistency when freezing?
    It's much easier to freeze a smaller area than a larger area, right?

    • @Xalarh
      @Xalarh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      True but I think the convection currents caused from the differences in temperature would cause them to even out into a gradient rather than stay in pockets

    • @SynomDroni
      @SynomDroni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No, it doesn't do any of that. It's a myth to begin with. No alternative wisdom to be found here.

    • @bonkeldonk3578
      @bonkeldonk3578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SynomDroni exactly.

    • @SynomDroni
      @SynomDroni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @randy marsh put the bong down.

    • @KutWrite
      @KutWrite 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is a hole in water?

  • @chaddriveler398
    @chaddriveler398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The warm water causes the freezer's thermostat to trigger sooner.

    • @paulmorett47
      @paulmorett47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Correct Sir

    • @dakalla
      @dakalla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is actually a very plausible explanation for the "real world experiments". The freezer's compressor will run full power all the time more or less as soon you put the warm water in. When you put in cold water it will maybe trigger only after a while.

  • @azorailke6057
    @azorailke6057 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was scrolling through TH-cam, saw the thumbnail and title; my life taught me that it's a "No". I clicked on the video and the preamble stated that "Hot water does freeze faster than cold water", but I still stood my initial hypothesis. I watched to the end of the video and I was glad to know that my logic is sound.

  • @Plant_The_Otter
    @Plant_The_Otter 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    hypotesis 6: as we all know when water freezes it's volume increases. Now, given that hot water has molecules more distant from each other, if we take an hot sample and we decrease it's temperature fast enough so that the water molecules won't have enough time to move as close to each other as they would be in a cold water sample, then the freezing would happen faster than in a cold water sample, in which you would need for the water molecules to gain distance from each other in order to freeze.
    it would also help to explain why by simply moving the thermocouple you would see or not see the mpemba effect.
    thoughts?