{"id":41991,"date":"2015-12-13T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=41991"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:57:26","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-what-kind-of-water-freezes-fastest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-what-kind-of-water-freezes-fastest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What Kind of Water Freezes Fastest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/cocktail-ice-mold-set?source=blog_uk121315\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41994 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uk_27244.jpg\" alt=\"Cocktail Ice Mold Set | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you said \u201ccold,\u201d you\u2019re actually getting colder. Unlike any other compound known to science, water has an irregular depression curve, which means that it becomes a solid\u2014ice\u2014more readily at a warmer temperature than at a few degrees colder. First noticed by Aristotle in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> century BCE, and also pointed out later by Francis Bacon and Ren\u00e9 Descartes, this quirky property is now known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2010-03-mpemba-effect-hot-faster-cold.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mpemba Effect,<\/a> named for the Tanzanian student who studied its influence on ice cream freezing in 1963. Since then, researchers have found that the phenomenon is due to a complex interplay between the covalent bonds that hold one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms together (forming water), and the weaker hydrogen bonds that hold water molecules together. This counterintuitive \u201csweet spot\u201d for freezing water means that you should use warm water (not hot) in your ice cube trays if you\u2019re in a hurry. It\u2019s also part of the reason why hockey rink <a href=\"http:\/\/zamboni.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zambonis<\/a> use warm water to resurface the ice in between periods. So if you\u2019re still waiting for that cold water to solidify, water you waiting for?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cocktail Ice Mold Set | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/cocktail-ice-mold-set?source=blog_uk121315\" target=\"_blank\">Cocktail Ice Mold Set<\/a> | $20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s cooler than being cool? Ice cold!? No&#8230;actually more like luke warm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":41995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[484,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42000,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions\/42000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}