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IT has long been accepted that on top of Pike's Peak, where water boils at 91° C, it takes 12 h to hard boil an egg. We have conducted experiments in the Biochemistry Department, Oxford University, in which we have hard boiled eggs successfully at 91° C in 10 min. There would thus appear to be a large error between the predicted and the experimental times.
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Moore, W. J., Physical Chemistry, fourth ed., 300 (Longmans Green, London, 1965).
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DWEK, R., NAVON, G. On Boiling an Egg. Nature 240, 491 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240491a0
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