It is, of coruse, simply not true that hot water freezes faster than cold water. Not counter intuitive, just wrong.
Most of the time the explanation for the alleged observation is as simple as the fact that given two exactly identical "quantities" of hot and cold water, there is less hot water than cold water.
In other words, it is not true that hot freezes before cold ... what is true is that people sometimes make poor observations and draw incorrect conclusions.
Most of the time the explanation for the alleged observation is as simple as the fact that given two exactly identical "quantities" of hot and cold water, there is less hot water than cold water.
In other words, it is not true that hot freezes before cold ... what is true is that people sometimes make poor observations and draw incorrect conclusions.