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Growing spoonful

I keep my ground coffee in the freezer. If I take a teaspoon straight from the freezer, its shape is low and rounded. Once the coffee has reached room temperature – about 25 °C here in the tropics – a teaspoon of it forms an elevated peak of larger volume. Why?

Clive Wilkinson, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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