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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:18 pm
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Mpemba Effect
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> > On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
> > > has the effect actually been observed with distilled water?
> > >
> > > harry
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> > There have been many serious experiments done in laboratories.
> It
> > is
> > difficult to imagine *not* using distilled water in such
> controlled
> >
> > experiments, at least in some controls. However, if you want a
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> > reference that actually says distilled water was used then here
> is
> > one:
> > http://www.speedylook.com/Mpemba_effect.html
> >
> > Here is a detailed 1998 discussion of m!
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I like this quote from the second link you provided:
<<[The effect] was not reintroduced to the scientific community until 1969, 500 years after Marliani's experiment, and more than two millennia after Aristotle's "Meteorologica I" [1]. The story of its rediscovery by a Tanzanian high school student named Mpemba is written up in the New Scientist [4]. The story provides a dramatic parable cautioning scientists and teachers against dismissing the observations of non-scientists and against making quick judgements about what is impossible.>>
Harry
