why do some liquids boil faster than others?
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c basically boiling of a liquid means the vapour pressure[pressure created at surface] equals the atmospheric pressure.the increase in vapour pressure is due to the fact that the kinetic energy of molecules movin thermal velocities because of increase in temp. therefore for some molecules the time taken by molecules to achieve this situation is faster as the molecules have diff forces of attraction .hence to break the forces and achieve the above situ. is diff for diff. liquids \n\n\nhope this is satisfactory any more queries  mail me
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Yes. It takes more time for hot water to freeze - the cooling process takes longer when you start from a higher temperature.\n\nDifferent liquids freeze at different temperatures.\n\nIt depends how cold the place where you're putting the boiling water is, how much boiling water there is, etc.\n\nI think that each liquid has a specific temperature at which it freezes - it may not be associated with thickness.
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Consider a liquid (water) and its gas (steam).  To convert water to steam, you first have to heat water to 100 C.  At that point additional energy begins to boil the water.  This is the process where water molecules have enough energy to overcome the attractive force between them (called cohesion, in this case, due to the dipolar attraction between waters).\n\nYou are right in that gases are higher energy (could say hotter), but that's because they've taken the energy from whatever heat source was around when they vaporized.\n\nBack to the water example, water on your skin feels cold because it's absorbing heat from your skin and as the water evaporates, that heat is carried away by the vapor phase molecules (which are moving faster than the liquid form).\n\nThe fast-moving particles from your question have a lot of heat stored, that's why steam at 100 C is more likely to burn your skin than water at 100 C.  It has more heat to transfer.\n\nAs for freon, it depends on which freon you're talking about.  Freon 12 (one of the ones phased out because of ozone depletion) melts at -158 C (Merck Index).
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1. microwaves heat water faster than boiling it over a heat source.\n\n2. microwaves have a more direct effect on an atom, since the energy is transferred directly form the MW to the atom, unlike the boiling water where it is transferred from heat source to water to the thing (w/ enzymes). the longer path means longer time.\n\n3. since the atoms (or molecules for enzymes) directly interact with the MWs, they are more likely to be destroyed than when boiling water is used. Hence the shorter time to ensure deactivation, and not destruction, is achieved
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It will boil faster in the larger pot IF\n1) the larger pot has a larger base\n2) the same amount of water is in both the smaller and larger pot.\n\nThe water will boil faster because more water is in contact with the base of the pot, which has more contact with the heating element.
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See this answer.  Dig into the citations for the reference articles in them.  The second also has references.\n\nHot freezes faster in many cases, given certain controls such as same amount of water, same size and shape container, standard pressure etc.  There  is at least one experiment showing that water at 90 degrees C will freeze quicker than water at 18 degrees C.  This is significant since one side is quite close to boiling and the other is basically room temperature.\n\nIf you are not a high school student, I would look up linear programming ( a branch of algebra not computer science) and develop a sensitivity analysis to determine the impact of various effects.
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good obervation!\n\nwell the reason is that when anything dissolves in something, that anything has it molecular bonds broken and interrupted by the solvent molecules. now to break the bonds of the solute(which dissolves) we need energy. this energy is provided by the solvent molecules. \n\nnow when anything is hot it has more energy associated with its molecules. hence hot milk has more energy too. so.....when it has more energy itself, it can provide the sugar molecules with more energy, hence its bonds can be broken faster, hence it dissolves faster.\n\nhope ur satisfied.
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The answer is yes. And I bet you want more of an explanation, which gets a little tricky. It would seem evident that cold water would freeze faster than warm water. But there have been raging debates in scientific circles over whether that's true or false. The fact is a lot of different factors contribute to how fast water freezes, including its beginning temperature.\n    Physicists writing in the journal Scientific American have waded into the fray and have probably come the closest to a satisfactory answer. Quoting Paul G. Hewitt in the book Conceptual Physics, the Scientific American writers believe that hot water will freeze faster than lukewarm water, but not faster than cold water. (Except under certain circumstances.)\n    According to Scientific American, water at 90° C will freeze before water that is 60° C. Below 60° C, however, there is a switch and the cooler water will freeze faster. For example, 30° C water will freeze faster than 60° C water. It has to do with the water evaporation of the hot water immersed in a cold environment. The rate of cooling by evaporation is way higher for hot water than for the cooling of lukewarm water.\n    Now, for those certain circumstances. When you put a pan of cold water and a pan of hot water in a freezer (both pans have equal masses of water), the hot water experiences this rapid evaporation AND freezing from below, which cools water on the bottom of the pan. Because the surface water is already warm or hot, the water at the bottom just sits there instead of rising, getting colder and colder. The water at the top experiences evaporation. The combined effect could make the hot water freeze faster than the cold water.
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It mainly depends on the pressure (if we are talking about pure water). The higher the pressure, the higher the boiling point - it can be much lower (ex. high in the mountains) or much higher than 100 degrees C (the boiling point under normal atmospheric pressure). If we don't talk about pure water, then adding other chemicals (for example, table salt - sodium chloride) can raise the boiling point as well.
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Heat = mass x specific heat of material x change of temperature.\nSpecific heat of water is 1. So the amount of heat needed to be added is the mass of the water x the amount of change needed to get to boiling. So cold water does not boil faster. \n\nsalt will cause it to take longer. \n\nPeople think that tea tastes betterr if you start with cold water, which holds more oxygen. As you heat the water, the oxygen comes out. This may look like boiling.
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Salt is an impurity which increases the boiling point of water.  This causes more heat to be supplied to the potato and thus cooks it faster.
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As any sane and decent person would expect, hot water out of the tap will boil faster than cold water out of the tap. However, water that has been boiled once and allowed to cool will boil faster than hot water out of the tap. That's because boiling gets rid of the dissolved oxygen usually found in water, making it easier for the water to boil the second time around.
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Tap water. Dissolved salt raises the boiling point, so salt water  takes longer to boil.
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The cooler water will freeze faster.  The hotter water is the faster the molecules in it are moving and the more energy there is in the water.  Before water can freeze it needs to lose this energy.  Therefore the more energy it needs to lose the longer it takes to cool and the longer it takes to freeze.\n\nThe belief the boiling water freezes faster than cooler water is a popular misconception.\n\nHowever, it is true to say that boiling water (100 degrees C) will freeze slightly faster then almost boiling water (95 degrees c) but that's because considerably more of the boiling wtare will evaporate than the nearly boiling water and therefore there's less water remaining.\n\nThis probably explains why cyanne2ak is able to freak people out by throwing hot coffee at them - in very cold temps theere will be very rapid evapouration and as such far less of the coffee that leaves the cup will land on the 'victim' then would be the case with tap water.
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hydrogen bonds will increase the boiling point of a substance, all else being equal.\none way to see this is by looking at the boiling point of alcohols.\nthere is a near linear correlation between length fo the carbon chain and the boiling point for straight chain carbohydrate alcohols. as the chain gets shorter, the boiling point goes up faster than the linear relation would suggest, until you get to water  where hydrogen bonding is the most active and the boiling point jumps dramatically.
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Boiling point of anything is dependent on pressure.... higher the pressure lower the boiling point...\nWhen you try to boil an egg on mountain.. coz the pressure there is quite low.. it take longer for water to boil and thus egg.
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No.  There was a time when people said it did because some dude in Africa was making ice cream and claimed that his ice cream froze faster if he heated it first, but that's because ice cream needs to congeal, and heating it boiled off much of the water, making it thicker to begin with.\n\nAnd it has been shown even since the time of the Greeks that water that has been boiled prior to freezing will freeze quicker due to the fact that boiling will remove dissolved gases from the liquid, but even that assumes you are comparing water that's been boiled and brought down to temperature versus water that has not been boiled.\n\nBut if you put water that's 8 degrees and water thats 80 degrees in a freezer, the 80 degree water, prior to freezing, will need to reach 8 degrees somewhere between here and there.  All the while, the 8 degree water has made substantial progress towards freezing.\n\nIt is true that hot water loses heat more quickly due to an increased driving force for heat loss, but this is a temporary thing.  As soon as the hotter water reaching the starting temperature of the cooler water, it has no "momentum" in losing heat, but it has lost a lot of time.