11-28-2023, 06:35 AM
A bucket of hot water will not freeze faster than a bucket of cold water. However, a bucket of water that been heated or boiled, then allowed to cool to the same temperature as the bucket of cold water , may breeze faster. Heating or boiling drives out some of the air bubbles in water; because air bubbles cut down thermal conductivity, they can inhibit freezing. For the same reason, previously heated water forms denser ice than unheated water, which is why hot-water pipes tend to burst before cold-water pipes.
