[at-l] Freezing??

> At 12:29 PM 12/4/00 -0500, WHHAWKINS@aol.com wrote:
> >The best way to treat water when it is below freezing is to boil it.
Bring
> to
> >a boil and boil for one minute. NO chemical treatment needed.  Before
going
> >to sleep fill your cooking pan with water, then in the morning put it on
the
> >stove and bring to a boil.
>
> Wait a minute.   There's a little inconsistency here.  If we're talking
> freezing weather in the 20's or below, then we don't want to fill pots
with
> wa-wa overnight or it'll be solid in the morning.  And bringing ice to a
> boil was just not fun, I seem to recall.  Quick, one of you chemistry
> types, what is the heat input required in kcalories to get past the phase
> change from solid to liquid versus just warming up hypothetical liquid
> water from 20 deg to 212 deg?  Probably double, I'd guess.
>
> Even if not freezing, why fill a pot and leave it outside?  It'll just get
> knocked over by one damn thing or another in the night.
>
> Why not just put an iodine pill in a liter or two of h20 in your bag with
> you and give it 8 hours to work?
>
> Sorry to be so contrary this evening...
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