Reply to Burridge & Linden: Hot water may freeze sooner than cold
read the original abstract
In a recent paper in Scientific Reports, Burridge \& Linden misinterpret the Mpemba effect as a statement about the rate of cooling of liquid water, when it is in fact a statement about the rate of freezing of water. Debunking an obviously absurd claim about cooling, they miss the significant effect, its only quantitative experimental study and a theoretical argument that explains the effect and predicts that it occurs only for "hard" water (water with significant dissolved Mg and Ca bicarbonates). This prediction remains to be tested.
This paper has not been read by Pith yet.
Forward citations
Cited by 2 Pith papers
-
Mpemba effect in a sheared granular gas with velocity-dependent restitution
A sheared granular gas with velocity-dependent restitution exhibits the Mpemba effect in temperature and multiple Mpemba effects in viscosity, demonstrated via Grad's moment method analysis of relaxation after shear r...
-
The Mpemba effect likes to hit a wall
A hard boundary drives the 1D Mpemba effect for polynomial potentials, not the double-well shape.
discussion (0)
Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.