From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!linus!lemmon Newsgroups: net.physics Title: Re: adding cold milk to hot tea Article-I.D.: linus.2212 Posted: Thu Jan 6 10:54:46 1983 Received: Fri Jan 7 02:46:24 1983 References: watmath.4140 Jearl Walker, in his Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American, described a series of experiments in which he measured the freezing times of containers of water at various temperatures. Rather surprisingly, he found a NON-monotonic relationship! Hotter containers apparently convect more vigorously, and the effect lasts after cooling to the temperature of other candidates in the race. Anyway, the situation in the real world is more complicated than one would think. Alan Lemmon (Sorry, I have forgotten when, but I think it was in 1982.)