{"id":351,"date":"2012-12-23T05:52:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T05:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:46","slug":"puzzlers-7-from-fermi-to-frying-pan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp2-3-science\/term-2-puzzlers\/puzzlers-7-from-fermi-to-frying-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzlers #7. From Fermi to the Frying Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi once asked a student during an examination: \u201cThe boiling point of olive oil is higher than the melting point of tin. Explain how it is then possible to fry food in olive oil in a pan.\u201d (Italian saucepans are wholly made of tinned copper.) What is the answer?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>boiling point, melting point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous Italian physicist Enrico Fermi once asked a student during an examination: \u201cThe boiling point of olive oil is higher than the melting point of tin. Explain how it is then possible to fry food in olive oil in a pan.\u201d (Italian saucepans are wholly made of tinned copper.) What is the answer? Concepts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2537,"parent":891,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Y7Kk-5F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/4200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}