18 Jun 07 22:00, DAVID WILLIAMS wrote to Roy Witt:

 DW> -> That was the point of my experiment. BTW, if you looked it over,
 DW> there is -> not much difference in the liquid temps after 30 minutes
 DW> in the freezer. -> Neither glass nor aluminum can made a difference
 DW> in liquid temp. Also, -> since aluminum conducts more readily than
 DW> glass, the can warmed up faster -> than the glass after removal from
 DW> the freezer.

 DW> I recall that the beer cans were larger than the glass containers
 DW> that held the liquor. Generally, small things cool faster than large
 DW> ones. So maybe there were two opposing tendencies, the greater heat
 DW> conduction in the can, which would tend to make it cool faster, and
 DW> the effect of size, working the opposite way. Maybe they roughly
 DW> cancelled out.

 DW> You are saying that the two containers cooled at roughly equal rates
 DW> in the freezer, but warmed up at unequal rates when they were taken
 DW> out. Are you sure about that?

No. I never thought to check temps while they were in the freezer. I did
note the container temps only after they were removed.

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