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Quantum CyberTeaser: July/August 2000

B300 Wrong-way mercury. A thermometer is quickly removed from molten tin. At first the mercury goes up, not down! Explain this strange phenomenon. Solution

The winners:

• Dimitrios Vardis (Ithaki, Greece)
• Eu Jin Teoh (Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
• Maxim Bachmutsky (Kfar-Saba, Israel)
• Oleg Ivrii (Toronto, Ontario)
• Mikhail Agladze (Ithaca, New York)
• Theo Koupelis (Wasau, Wisconsin)
• Chris Ridgers (Cambridge, England)
• Howard Brown (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
• Clarissa Lee (Selangor, Malaysia)
• Igor Astapov (Kingston, Ontario)

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