Re: cooling water

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 09:06 6/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
> The various references that have been given on this topic all lead to the
> same ultimate conclusion.  If you put _equal masses_ of hot and cold water
> in the freezer, you will end up with a smaller mass of ice from the hot
> water.  Under the right conditions, this hot water may well freeze before
> the cold, but to end up with equal masses of ice, then simple Calorimetry
> will dictate that the hot source will take longer than the cold.  To do
> this, you'd have to start with more hot than cold since evaporation seems a
> major component in the process.
>
> So your experiment needs to precisely measure the masses both before and
> after freezing.
>
> rwt

Richard puts together a most interesting line of reasoning.
 In my humble view his logic stumbles. But to make it interesting, now I
 have pointed it out, I wonder if you can tell which is the faulty step 
in the syllogism? (If you agree that there IS in fact an error...)

Regards
Brian Whatcott