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Mpemba effect en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba, who published on the topic in the 1960s.

Meanings

1. The supposed tendency of warmer (and/or previously warmed) liquids or colloids (especially water) to freeze more quickly than cooler ones under at least some conditions.
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