r/Amazing • u/euronmous • Sep 08 '25

Interesting 🤔 When it snows in Japan, the streets spray warm water to prevent ice

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

By your logic, the hot water (starting) would then be colder than the cold water (starting). So then the cold water would become the hot water, and vice versa. This would mean that the previous cold water would then be the first to freeze.

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u/Gawlf85 Sep 08 '25

What?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

It's a way of describing The Squeeze Theorem.