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Publication: National Review
Publication Date: 31-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 670 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Memo to: WFB From: Linda Bridges

Dear Bill: Did you see this?

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry midterm. The answer by one student struck the professor as worth sharing with colleagues, via the Internet, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the...

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