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Is the Mpemba effect exclusive to water ?

So I was reading this post about really cool phenomena where hot water freezes faster than cold water.

But it only talks about water. Even online student only talk about water. I wanted to ask if it is generally true for any sort of liquids and/or homogenous/heterogeneous solutions. Eg Mercury , Ethanol, Acetone, etc...

If no, then why is it that water has this special property?

BioPhysicist
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If, and I do mean IF, the typical explanation for the effect is correct, and supercooling is involved, then any liquid subject to supercooling should show this effect. It is subject to this if the spontaneous crystal forming temperature is below the seeding temperature, which is true for many substances.

Maury Markowitz
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The effect is also present in granular fluids:PhysRevLett.119

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