Instant Ice, anyone? [Video]

Dmitry Klimensky demonstrates, from Novosibirsk, Russia, what happens when he throws a pot full of hot water out into the -41C air. And check out the scientific explanation of this effect, aka Mpemba effect, after a schoolboy from Tanzania, claimed in his science class that icecream would freeze faster if it was heated first before being put in the freezer. As the article says, the laughter stopped when a school inspector tried the experiment himself, & vindicated Erasto Mpemba.