Why does tea reheat/boil faster after it becomes cold?

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It takes about 5-8 minutes for the water to boil in the tea pot, but when I reheat the tea after it becomes cold, it takes around 1 or 2 minutes to boil.

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Clean water has very little extras in it so it takes the standard time to boil, versus other liquids like tea has larger percentage of alternate molecules which means it can heat up faster. Some other concentrations of different liquids can actually delay boiling, such as automotive coolant/antifreeze.

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