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.)