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When I was growing up it was a known phenomenon in my family that hot water pipes would freeze before cold pipes in winter. And that using hot water to de-ice y
by KiwiNige 17y ago
When I was growing up it was a known phenomenon in my family that hot water pipes would freeze before cold pipes in winter. And that using hot water to de-ice your car would cause it to freeze up again more than cold water.
It's something I've always been meaning to test out properly to see if it was real.
- baddox 17y agoHot water pipes have water running through then less often. Hot water might cause your car windows to fog up, but I doubt the Mpemba effect, even if it's real, could be noticed in that situation.