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.org/wiki/Mpemba_...
    Questioning the Mpemba Effect: www.nature.com/articles/srep37665
    Royal Society of Chemistry competition: www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/re...
    Edited by Trevor Carlee

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  • @Nvrmr_
    @Nvrmr_ 7 років тому +1680

    You look like that guy from Veritasium

    • @ObjectsInMotion
      @ObjectsInMotion 7 років тому +114

      Nevermore Yeah it's Dirk from Veristablium

    • @lucasramosp
      @lucasramosp 7 років тому +97

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

    • @user-iu1xg6jv6e
      @user-iu1xg6jv6e 7 років тому +49

      He's Derek's evil twin!

    • @AlhunAydin
      @AlhunAydin 7 років тому +62

      Yeah! He finally managed to clone himself.

    • @VaregianEisselor
      @VaregianEisselor 7 років тому +21

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

  • @spoolers9090
    @spoolers9090 3 роки тому +3992

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

  • @cyclesingsleep
    @cyclesingsleep 2 роки тому +327

    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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      @@link7417 "tens and purposes"

    • @BigUriel
      @BigUriel 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +3

      @@link7417 The phrase is "intents and purposes"

  • @HostileTakeover2
    @HostileTakeover2 2 роки тому +330

    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 роки тому

      Repent to Jesus Christ
      “For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.””
      ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭3:12‬ ‭NIV‬‬
      U

    • @fredosslave7558
      @fredosslave7558 2 роки тому +19

      @@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 No.

    • @protercool8474
      @protercool8474 2 роки тому +1

      There is always more shit going on than we can know

    • @dsd-downshiftdave8056
      @dsd-downshiftdave8056 Рік тому +1

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

  • @spoonmanvlogs5386
    @spoonmanvlogs5386 5 років тому +4693

    But steel is heavier than feathers

    • @-butterfly-594
      @-butterfly-594 5 років тому +104

      @Toughen Up, Fluffy *boot stayle es heayviea dan fehdhehs*
      ua-cam.com/video/N3bEh-PEk1g/v-deo.html

    • @ollinnature9506
      @ollinnature9506 5 років тому +250

      But there both a kilogram

    • @erenyalcn9393
      @erenyalcn9393 5 років тому +37

      I really wanna look at the size of it Thats cheating

    • @lemon5501
      @lemon5501 5 років тому +113

      Buh deyre boath a keilogriem

    • @deluxeassortment
      @deluxeassortment 5 років тому +68

      Ah doon geh it

  • @arooobine
    @arooobine 7 років тому +19092

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

    • @bluesquare23
      @bluesquare23 7 років тому +420

      Benjamin go home...

    • @xl000
      @xl000 7 років тому +81

      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 років тому +347

      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 років тому +23

      xl pfff that's so lumbersexual

    • @sexybeast7728
      @sexybeast7728 7 років тому +63

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

  • @bledlbledlbledl
    @bledlbledlbledl 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +5

      @@webby2275 Jew magic, I say

    • @broncosbreaks
      @broncosbreaks 2 роки тому

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

    • @user-by6tn2ud4s
      @user-by6tn2ud4s 2 роки тому

      @@kathrynck ee1

  • @purpl3grape
    @purpl3grape 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      Cool story bro.

    • @link7417
      @link7417 2 роки тому +1

      @@mann_idonotreadreplies i find it rather cool honestly

    • @MadDogE134
      @MadDogE134 2 роки тому

      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

  • @renz1013
    @renz1013 3 роки тому +4219

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

    • @Ricky911_
      @Ricky911_ 3 роки тому +550

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

    • @renz1013
      @renz1013 3 роки тому +341

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

    • @Charles-iy2ec
      @Charles-iy2ec 3 роки тому +47

      I searched for this video bc of that

    • @braintwo3398
      @braintwo3398 3 роки тому +14

      *sanctuary garden plays*

    • @HeliaBoi
      @HeliaBoi 3 роки тому +12

      WHaT?

  • @kenmendoza7580
    @kenmendoza7580 7 років тому +7595

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

  • @aetherblackbolt1301
    @aetherblackbolt1301 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +6

      Repent to Jesus Christ
      “For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.””
      ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭3:12‬ ‭NIV‬‬
      Jj

    • @noone-oi2po
      @noone-oi2po 2 роки тому +52

      @@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 Ok

    • @helixzenith
      @helixzenith 2 роки тому +38

      @@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 Allah is asking me to ratio you. Blessed be His name!

    • @barto22
      @barto22 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +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.

  • @CaptainRon1913
    @CaptainRon1913 2 роки тому +312

    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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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!

  • @Shane24597
    @Shane24597 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +111

      @@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 роки тому +58

      @@mat5473 Yes.

    • @user-svqmbiv
      @user-svqmbiv 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 років тому +931

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

    • @Psyberify
      @Psyberify 7 років тому +6

      Tim Stahel LOL right?

    • @baassie123
      @baassie123 7 років тому +8

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

    • @aston8040
      @aston8040 7 років тому

      Tim Stahel I am the 793 subscriber!

    • @nicolevsutedja
      @nicolevsutedja 7 років тому +5

      it's veritasium/sciencium... not Vsauce

    • @XavierXonora
      @XavierXonora 7 років тому +51

      I love that about Vsauce. Both channels are great

  • @donovanmahan2901
    @donovanmahan2901 2 роки тому +11

    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.

  • @davep.7099
    @davep.7099 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      You do that

    • @kyriansalvar247
      @kyriansalvar247 2 роки тому +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

  • @Incognito-co6og
    @Incognito-co6og 3 роки тому +1108

    "What? " - Gordon Ramsay

    • @martinbudinsky8912
      @martinbudinsky8912 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @Incognito-co6og
      @Incognito-co6og 3 роки тому +27

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

    • @martinbudinsky8912
      @martinbudinsky8912 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +23

      @@martinbudinsky8912 bruh

    • @anazero1592
      @anazero1592 3 роки тому +16

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

  • @videogyar2
    @videogyar2 7 років тому +1076

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

    • @kylewilliamrobertson5121
      @kylewilliamrobertson5121 7 років тому +78

      Yeah I'm confused

    • @iancd9171
      @iancd9171 7 років тому +43

      It's a no, because of thermodynamics.

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 7 років тому +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 років тому +5

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

    • @Wafflical
      @Wafflical 7 років тому +19

      Sometimes. But if everything is properly controlled, no.

  • @rong1924
    @rong1924 2 роки тому +6

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

  • @tombudd1281
    @tombudd1281 2 роки тому +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!

  • @gisnerd
    @gisnerd 5 років тому +981

    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 роки тому +61

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

    • @NiqIce
      @NiqIce 3 роки тому

    • @marios1861
      @marios1861 3 роки тому +21

      @2 Nep8id6 surely you jest

    • @nevermindthebull0cks
      @nevermindthebull0cks 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @jsmith5443
      @jsmith5443 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @MFaiz-zm2qp
    @MFaiz-zm2qp 5 років тому +2520

    But does cold water boil faster ?

  • @An0nymous_L0gic
    @An0nymous_L0gic 2 роки тому

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

  • @danqodusk8140
    @danqodusk8140 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @aureusknighstar2195
    @aureusknighstar2195 3 роки тому +1235

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

    • @Pr3Va1L
      @Pr3Va1L 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +12

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

    • @darkdefender9919
      @darkdefender9919 3 роки тому +11

      She a lil confused

  • @vesteel
    @vesteel 7 років тому +1102

    VERITASIUM WANNABE

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 років тому +7

      hah!

    • @warpedreality7988
      @warpedreality7988 7 років тому +1

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

    • @ErikN99
      @ErikN99 7 років тому +50

      Tim van de Goor HAHAHAHAH

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 років тому +13

      +Tim van de Goor Jokes

    • @Vession
      @Vession 7 років тому +95

      He even copied the hair.

  • @butterflyjaie9550
    @butterflyjaie9550 2 роки тому

    I really tried to follow what you were saying. Thanks for the video

  • @mikeagne5933
    @mikeagne5933 Рік тому +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

  • @EEVblog
    @EEVblog 7 років тому +3186

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

    • @theresaquinn8525
      @theresaquinn8525 7 років тому +5

      EEVblog like Nobel laureate luc montigers experiment

    • @user255
      @user255 7 років тому +151

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

    • @dbanetinc
      @dbanetinc 7 років тому +11

      EEVblog wow Dave watches Veritasium! Gday Dave.

    • @Ramiromasters
      @Ramiromasters 7 років тому +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 років тому +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.

  • @xenaguy01
    @xenaguy01 3 роки тому +1219

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

    • @kajxqeirscl
      @kajxqeirscl 3 роки тому +145

      Schrödinger's effect I guess

    • @xenaguy01
      @xenaguy01 3 роки тому +57

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

    • @DamienDarksideBlog
      @DamienDarksideBlog 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +2

      @@xenaguy01 yup same here

  • @hirni4ever
    @hirni4ever 2 роки тому +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

  • @Weltbummler23
    @Weltbummler23 2 роки тому +1

    Great job 👏

  • @n484l3iehugtil
    @n484l3iehugtil 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +15

      @@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 роки тому +5

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

  • @scofah
    @scofah 5 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +4

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

    • @godlyvex5543
      @godlyvex5543 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +4

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

  • @rhett786
    @rhett786 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @THEL05
    @THEL05 Рік тому

    Excellent ! 👌🏻

  • @cgaccount3669
    @cgaccount3669 7 років тому +1599

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

    • @DiabloDBS
      @DiabloDBS 7 років тому +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 років тому +40

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

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 7 років тому +40

      yeah kinda poor explanation isnt it.

    • @arc3celestion
      @arc3celestion 7 років тому +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 років тому +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!

  • @AwesomeCrackDealer
    @AwesomeCrackDealer 7 років тому +293

    Wtf how did Aristotle freeze his water?

    • @ataozcan23
      @ataozcan23 5 років тому +253

      he put in freezer duh...

    • @arthurmee
      @arthurmee 5 років тому +47

      There are snow covered mountains in Geece. Check it.

    • @bobhart7067
      @bobhart7067 5 років тому +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 років тому +144

      he was a cool dude.

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS 5 років тому +21

      @@bobhart7067 Yeah, but that still requires ice

  • @Ellipsis115
    @Ellipsis115 2 роки тому +1

    I find it interesting that a few of these are following by (paraphrasing) "this was controlled for and the effect still occured" I wonder if collectively they might cause it and if that when controlling for *all* factors it dissapearing would make sense.

  • @ClanHawkins
    @ClanHawkins 2 роки тому

    Do i understand correctly or did the definition of the mpemba effect change mid video? Is the effect questioning time to freeze or time to reach a measurable temperature of 0c? Am I in error or are those in practice different questions?

    • @SteveGergetz
      @SteveGergetz 4 місяці тому

      I know, I was confused when I got to that point too.

  • @starwarslore4299
    @starwarslore4299 7 років тому +199

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

    • @sciencium
      @sciencium  7 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +6

      Sciencium ah that makes sense, thanks!

    • @starwarslore4299
      @starwarslore4299 7 років тому +3

      bignate2814 thank you!

    • @adityakhanna113
      @adityakhanna113 7 років тому +54

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

  • @lavrans00
    @lavrans00 7 років тому +212

    The channel was created back in 2013?

    • @sciencium
      @sciencium  7 років тому +265

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

    • @warpedreality7988
      @warpedreality7988 7 років тому +1

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

    • @oneetatsu
      @oneetatsu 7 років тому +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 років тому +1

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

    • @matj12
      @matj12 7 років тому +1

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

  • @christopherjohnjones-parke5026
    @christopherjohnjones-parke5026 2 роки тому

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

  • @scottmactavish9716
    @scottmactavish9716 2 роки тому

    I'm super glad I watched the whole episode!

  • @goldwinger5434
    @goldwinger5434 2 роки тому +436

    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 роки тому +121

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

    • @goldwinger5434
      @goldwinger5434 2 роки тому +79

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

    • @vuedanto8576
      @vuedanto8576 2 роки тому +17

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

    • @nathanroberson
      @nathanroberson 2 роки тому +31

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

    • @Sotanaht01
      @Sotanaht01 2 роки тому +48

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

  • @plur5ever
    @plur5ever 3 роки тому +37

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

    • @theloafdude8304
      @theloafdude8304 3 роки тому +1

      * visible confusion *

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +5

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

    • @vladtheimpala5532
      @vladtheimpala5532 3 роки тому +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

  • @ossiebalboa5617
    @ossiebalboa5617 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @honestly7134
    @honestly7134 Рік тому

    Known about this topic for 35 years and your presentation is great. Made me ask the question about the consistancy of "energy density??" through out the ice. Wonder if the experiment was continued and the beakers were placed in a 70 Deg F room, would they have different thaw rates. Also how does thermal conduction vary with the density of the ICE? Is the ice density different depending on the rate of freezing?
    The ice cream observation is easily explained by the cooling of each sample during the wait time between the first and last samples to be put in the freezer. If the difference in wait time was 30 minutes, the sample in the freezer for the additional 30 minutes would obviously be at a lower temperature than the one that sat a room temperature during this wait period.

  • @flap.d.jack247
    @flap.d.jack247 3 роки тому +326

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

    • @Jay-nj1oz
      @Jay-nj1oz 3 роки тому +8

      A man of culture

    • @zoowing2635
      @zoowing2635 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +5

      WHATTT **confused gorden ramsey face**

    • @Not_Claptrap
      @Not_Claptrap 3 роки тому +1

      I actually believed this was true for years

    • @flap.d.jack247
      @flap.d.jack247 3 роки тому

      @@Not_Claptrap *confused Gordon Ramsay face*

  • @scilabus
    @scilabus 7 років тому +85

    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 років тому +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 років тому

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

    • @danhenricus
      @danhenricus 7 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +1

      This is actually his third channel, he has 2veritasiun

  • @JoeySaada
    @JoeySaada 2 роки тому

    Hi. Do you have any updates on this topic??

  • @salehalsekhan697
    @salehalsekhan697 Рік тому

    Great video ! Is it possible to discuss scattered (or showered) boiling water and why it freezes faster ? This would allow the research to go beyond the container and would possibly make it perfectly not related to convection nor volume

  • @hensontm
    @hensontm 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      Then the water is not cold

    • @briea3438
      @briea3438 3 роки тому +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.

  • @shimassi9961
    @shimassi9961 7 років тому +90

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

    • @ShahidKhan-eq1gx
      @ShahidKhan-eq1gx 7 років тому +1

      Shimassi do you have misophonia?

    • @RubixB0y
      @RubixB0y 7 років тому

      ai, es no bueno

    • @jorandebraekeleer7557
      @jorandebraekeleer7557 7 років тому

      +Shimassi Same here

    • @ShahidKhan-eq1gx
      @ShahidKhan-eq1gx 7 років тому

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

    • @piperman69
      @piperman69 7 років тому +1

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

  • @ongeri
    @ongeri 2 роки тому

    Some kind of thermodynamic inertia was my first suspect. Some kind of leftover motion from the previously hot molecules that improves the exchange of heat.

  • @programaths
    @programaths 2 роки тому

    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*!

  • @nic12344
    @nic12344 7 років тому +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 років тому +7

      Exactly, I thought the same.

    • @mariajohnson1744
      @mariajohnson1744 7 років тому +23

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

    • @bluedemon9985
      @bluedemon9985 7 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +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.

  • @ferdyhoshigakitube
    @ferdyhoshigakitube 7 років тому +290

    how Aristotle freeze water?

    • @ferdyhoshigakitube
      @ferdyhoshigakitube 7 років тому +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 років тому +5

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

    • @svampebob007
      @svampebob007 7 років тому +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 років тому +8

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

    • @MartinVaupell
      @MartinVaupell 7 років тому +14

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

  • @countrymiami
    @countrymiami 2 роки тому

    Great explanation, but why no experiment?

  • @richardcollind2421
    @richardcollind2421 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @bleyz3557
    @bleyz3557 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +4

      Bamboozled

    • @DamienDarksideBlog
      @DamienDarksideBlog 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +3

      @@DamienDarksideBlog 0 is freezing my man.

    • @asphorcata
      @asphorcata 3 роки тому

      @@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 роки тому +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.

  • @azlhiacneg
    @azlhiacneg 7 років тому +51

    Ooo this is pretty cool.

    • @sciencium
      @sciencium  7 років тому +4

      I should have known you'd be first!

    • @azlhiacneg
      @azlhiacneg 7 років тому

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

    • @kisileno
      @kisileno 7 років тому +6

      azlhiacneg as cool as freezing warm water?

    • @checkoutthatthing
      @checkoutthatthing 7 років тому

      Pun city!

  • @FreakyDudeEx
    @FreakyDudeEx 2 роки тому

    so that means it has got to be the supercooling right because when introducing something else in the controlled experiment, the water starts to freezes faster sometimes... and evaporation effects helps to stabilize the timing to be more consistent....

  • @sophie-on1rj
    @sophie-on1rj 2 роки тому

    Could it have something to do with the arrangement of the molecules? Hot/warm water has water molecules that are more loosely bound. Therefore they could organize into the ice structure faster?

  • @icecreambone
    @icecreambone 5 років тому +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 років тому +35

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

    • @simedinson984
      @simedinson984 5 років тому +3

      sounds about rigth

    • @David-ud9ju
      @David-ud9ju 5 років тому +3

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

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude 5 років тому +23

      David um no that's not the point at all

    • @markcundiff1697
      @markcundiff1697 5 років тому +1

      Apparently he never studied thermondynaics!

  • @independentomega2701
    @independentomega2701 3 роки тому +417

    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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому +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

  • @solomontong7145
    @solomontong7145 2 роки тому

    Yoooo I didn’t even realize this is the second channel. This channel is doing so well so far

  • @balloonwind2863
    @balloonwind2863 2 роки тому

    I did not see that twist coming...

  • @bryanong4879
    @bryanong4879 3 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

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

    • @cozmic8288
      @cozmic8288 3 роки тому

      gg

    • @DrakeOola
      @DrakeOola 3 роки тому

      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...

  • @piotrkakol1992
    @piotrkakol1992 7 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому +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 років тому

      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 років тому +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.

  • @TheGreatWolfYT
    @TheGreatWolfYT 2 роки тому +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 Рік тому +1

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

  • @2gyi718
    @2gyi718 2 роки тому

    Observed by many great thinkers and innovators of history but this schoolboy gets the naming haha. Good one Mpemba.

  • @such1997
    @such1997 3 роки тому +13

    Sounds like Schrödinger's Mpemba Effect to me!!

  • @SH-lb1nu
    @SH-lb1nu 3 роки тому +52

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

    • @duvan-solis
      @duvan-solis 3 роки тому +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 роки тому

      Look up Stigler's law of eponymy

    • @Nexus9118
      @Nexus9118 3 роки тому

      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 роки тому

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

  • @juanmarcano8700
    @juanmarcano8700 2 роки тому

    What about thermal shock? Is the ice formed at a regular rate any different in consistency or is it more/less brittle than the one formed out of hot water?

  • @BigJackGameplays
    @BigJackGameplays 2 роки тому

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

  • @emsity819
    @emsity819 3 роки тому +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

  • @Jim361tx
    @Jim361tx 7 років тому +4

    Excited about the new channel

  • @dillo12567
    @dillo12567 2 роки тому

    That 2016 study was to find the rate to 0 degrees right? So you didnt say the rate to which it froze.

  • @khall3353
    @khall3353 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

      so stirred water freeze faster?

  • @PierreMarkuse
    @PierreMarkuse 7 років тому +5

    Interesting, but the sound effect for your logo shortly after 7:06 was a jump scare on headphones.

  • @thehesk1941
    @thehesk1941 3 роки тому +26

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

  • @Deeper489
    @Deeper489 2 роки тому

    Probably a dumb question but can you do a video on the opposite. does cold water boil faster than hot water. I remember being taught this in high school chem and I think it was because of waters specific heat or something like that I can’t remember

  • @Sonofsun.
    @Sonofsun. 2 роки тому

    Bruh! You had me in the first half

  • @mikeeiben3430
    @mikeeiben3430 2 роки тому +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 Рік тому +6

      Matches convection arguments

    • @themenace_omnyoji4141
      @themenace_omnyoji4141 Рік тому +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 7 місяців тому

      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 6 місяців тому +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 6 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @newtome-jessegates6310
    @newtome-jessegates6310 3 роки тому +6

    As soon as I heard about this I thought it might have something to do with the warm water having more energy to allow the molecules to getting into their crystalline form easier

  • @whatsthebigfndeal
    @whatsthebigfndeal 2 роки тому +2

    I heard about this when I was in high school. It sounded a bit odd so I tried it several times over the course of a few days. I guess I was doing something wrong because the cold water always froze first.

  • @calebpoemoceah3087
    @calebpoemoceah3087 Рік тому

    Could this effect also be used as a particle detector?

  • @dr.robertjohnson6953
    @dr.robertjohnson6953 3 роки тому +8

    Wife: "Did you finish making the ice cream?"
    me: "I sure did"
    Wife: "where is it?"
    me: "Well, because of the Mpemba effect triggered a secondary Mandela effect. It was there and now its not"

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss 7 років тому +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 років тому

      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 років тому

      @@zeromailss i'm just gonna try itmyself

  • @supersonicgamerguru
    @supersonicgamerguru 2 роки тому

    I mean, for the mpemba part of it if the pots were all boiled at roughly the same time, but his was put in the freezer first, then that just is the whole reason for the result there isn't it? Did he boil his pot later than everyone else, then put it in the freezer before they did?

  • @joeseabert8391
    @joeseabert8391 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @ValentinNadolu
    @ValentinNadolu 3 роки тому +7

    I did not expect that twist at the end to be honest :))
    I always thought about this effect at a molecular level by considering movement. The molecules in water move around more than the ones in cold water so there's a higher chance of them reaching the sides of the container and lose their kinetic energy by colliding with lower moving, lower temperature molecules. There's also a higher chance of hot water meeting cold water and loosing it's energy this way. It seemed to make sense to me since I usually stir my tea to make it cool faster. Or at least that's what I thought until now anyway.

  • @MeowO_O
    @MeowO_O 5 років тому +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 роки тому +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 роки тому

      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 роки тому

      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.

  • @MrDrone-qt6sw
    @MrDrone-qt6sw 2 роки тому

    Was looking for practical

  • @dash0173
    @dash0173 2 роки тому

    what if it's some kind of quantum mechanic that changes when observed? that'd be pretty cool.

  • @MrRowskey
    @MrRowskey 7 років тому +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 років тому

      that is the most plausible one

  • @starwarslore4299
    @starwarslore4299 7 років тому +11

    I'm looking forward to the content on this channel

  • @maintenanceman4800
    @maintenanceman4800 2 роки тому

    When i put two bottles of water in the freezer one in the back & one in the door 30 mins later the door bottle is frozen around the edges of the bottle and not ine the middle. but the other bottle in the back is thill all liquid. If i disturb, or tap the top it starts to turn into a icey like water. Really cool to watch. So placement in the freezing unit is key.

  • @rickyroaster
    @rickyroaster 2 роки тому

    I figured this out making slides with water as a child, tepid water definitely helped make the slide freeze quicker. Then just may be its a combination of a few, evaporation with the tepid water, coupled with low humidity,. convection from an already frozen tar, and the molecule distance may not react as quickly to the heat exchange thus speeding it up the freezing process, bringing the super cooled closer to zero,rather than going past to freeze the extra denser atoms