Does metal freeze faster

Answer 1

"no, you can only freeze and thaw glass"

Whoever wrote this answer is either trolling (for the e-naive, basically writing joke answers [that you don't actually believe or don't actually hold that opinion] to try and fool people or get a rise out of them for your own amusement) or just a total idiot.

You can freeze metal. In fact just about every metal you come in contact with day-to-day, with the exception being if you have an old Mercury thermometer (the "mercury" in most modern-day thermometers is not mercury at all), are already frozen.

You see, a frozen substance is actually defined as being below it's melting point; in other words, solid. So with a few very strange and esoteric exceptions, anything solid is frozen. This includes the metal in your car, your kitchen utensils and pots/pans, your metal computer case, your lawnmower engine, your soda and beer cans, etc. you get the idea; the list goes on and on.

When you melt something frozen, that means you turn it into a liquid, right? So if you can melt metal, that must means it starts of...you guessed...FROZEN!

You can freeze metal. You simply don't need to because it's almost always frozen. We just don't think of it as 'frozen' because the word 'frozen' is an adjective derived form the verb freeze, and to freeze something it is generally understood to be a liquid. Since metal is not usually a liquid, we don't refer to it as frozen, being in its natural state. You refer to ice as frozen because usually it is in the form of liquid: water, and so being "frozen" it usually means it WAS liquid and then became a solid. This part is just semantics.

So the answer is an enthusiastic "YES!", you CAN freeze metal.

Answer 2

At extremely high temperatures, but yes it does freeze.

If you want to see it freeze, get some Field's Metal--which melts in hot water. Melt the metal, pour it into a mold and wait. Eventually a phase transformation from liquid to solid will occur.

Answer 3

I believe it depends on the alloy of metal. Different alloys melt at different temperatures and i define "freezing" as when the metal becomes solid.

Answer 4

when metal is warm and then turns frozen it shrinks

Answer 5

Freezing is a phasechange from the liquid state to the solid state. Hence, a liquid metal or a molten metal can freeze, but not a solid metal.