thermo

Aug 10, 2011 1 Replies


When you are in your breakroom getting coffee, put the cream in as soon as


>you fill your cup as opposed to waiting until you get to your desk to add
>the cream. The coffee will be warmer when its time to drink it.

Would you mind sharing with why this is? It seems to me that there would be a) a negligable difference, or b) putting the cream in *after* it has had a chance to start warming to room temperature would make putting the cream after waiting better. Or maybe I just fell for a troll.......... Otherwise, unless you're using an adiabatic wall to transport your cream to your desk in order to stop any transfer of heat through that yadda, yadda, yadda........ ;-) Jim E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@nwu.edu !*! "Nothing is worse than majority. It consists !*! of a few leaders, some rogues who adapt, !*! masses who follow far behind, knowing not !*! what they want." -Goethe

Water cooling is rapidly slowing down with decreasing temperature together with slowing down evaporation.

There are cases when hot water based liquid is to be mixed later with something cold.

If the result is to be as cold as possible, one should let water alone cooling down as long as possible before addition.

And viceversa.

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