Esposito, S.; De Risi, R.; Somma, L. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 4, pp. 757-763
In this paper, an accurate experimental investigation of the Mpemba effect (that is, of the fact that initially hot water freezes before the colder one) is carried out, showing that, in the adiabatic cooling of water, relevant roles are played by supercooling, and by phase transitions which take...