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    THE MPEMBA EFFECT

    Oct 09, 2019 2 minutes
    Words by TOM WHIPPLE

    Even as Erasto Mpemba put up his hand, his schoolmates started jeering. They knew what he was going to ask – it was his obsession – and they did not want to be embarrassed by a classmate demonstrating his ignorance of physics in that way. 

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