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Marble bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippus c. 330 BC. The alabaster mantle is modern.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a £1,000 prize to anyone who can crack this age-old ice puzzle.Here we are two thousand years after Aristotle and we are still looking for answer to the question: Why does hot water freeze faster than cold?
Know as the Mpemba effect, The Royal Society of Chemistry has decided enough is enough. In an attempt to solve the problem once and for all they are asking the public to come up with a convincing explanation. The person with a convincing solution to the problem of, “why does hot water freeze faster than cold” will win a cash reward of £1000 for their answer.
The Royal Society of Chemistry are asking anyone who thinks they can crack this age-old ice puzzle to go to the Hermes website, where they can submit their theory.
The deadline for public entries is 30 July 2012, because hard on the public’s heels will be a bunch of the world’s acutest postgraduate scientists who, sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry, will be attacking the same problem while locked in a posh hotel in Windsor Great Park during the first week of the Olympic Games.
