Why does boiling water freeze faster than room-temp water?
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It shouldn’t. Its requires more energy to be removed from the boiling to get it to freeze than room temp water. If you are referring to the videos where people are throwing boiling water into the air when it is freezing outside, this is an evaporative cooling thing since you are exposing the hot water to a huge surface area of cold air and the process of evaporating removes a massive amount of thermal energy which rapidly cools the remaining water, but if you just have 2 cups, one at 212, one at 70 and put them in a freeze, the 70 freezes first.
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