Mpemba effect

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Etymology[edit]

Named after Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba, who published on the topic in the 1960s.

Noun[edit]

the Mpemba effect

  1. The supposed tendency of warmer water to freeze more quickly than colder water.
    • 2012, Elizabeth H. Oakes, Heat and Thermodynamics, Infobase Learning, →ISBN, page 38:
      Scientists as yet have been unable to fully explain the mechanism behind the Mpemba effect. It is a combination of a variety of heat transfer methods, and those combinations change under different conditions of water and […]
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