Tired of waiting for water to boil? You should try cold water!

Have you ever heard the saying "cold water boils faster than warm water?" Well I know I have, but I could never get myself to believe it because, is that physically possible? Well once you're done reading you will know whether warm water boils fast than cold water.

What makes cold water boil faster than warm is called the Mpemba effect. One may think that if you start boiling warm 70 degrees water, it would take less time then cold 30 degrees water because the warm water has a head start. This is untrue however. How can that be?

Here is a site by Monwhea Jeng who explains a detailed explanation of the Science

Well how it works is when you put cold water on a lit or turned on stove burner, the stove makes the cold water molecules move faster to get warmer. This makes the cold water warmer faster because its molecules are moving faster. As you know, friction creates heat and the water molecules are creating friction as they move against each other. If warm water was put on stove, the molecules wouldn’t move as fast, making it not warm up faster than the cold water. Even though this seems impossible it is very true. Another example of the Mpemba effect is when warm water freezes faster than cold water.

Over all sometimes what you think is what is not nessecary true. One example of this is the Mpemba effect. And maybe you’re even willing to try this for yourself at home, and if you do be careful, stoves are hot. Also, if you have any questions, concerns, or comments please post them below.