From: "Phil Payne" 

Time to restart the dear old Mpemba effect discussion?

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> IIRC from my grade 10 physics/chem class:  change of state of matter from
> gas-to-liquid or liquid-to-solid or the return route involves substantial
> energy transfer.  Once the change of state occurs, the energy involved in
> further transitions within the state is demonstrably less.
>
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:34:18 -0500, Don Hills
>  wrote:
>
> >
> > So it looks like a significant part of the energy consumption is at the
> > blast
> > freezing stage for frozen storage. It would make sense to do that "off
> > peak",
> > except that again you run into problems with inefficient utilisation of
> > plant.
> >
>

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