Thermal Lunch

disign an experiment to compare a thermal property of oil and water?

in kumming in the yunnan province of china a traditional dish is across the bridge noodles according to legend a scholar's wife wife to travel over a long bridge to take noodle soup to her husband for his lunch inevitably by the time she arrived the soup had cooled significantly one day she overcooked the chicken soup which left a thin layer of fat on top sho discovered than the soup stayed hot until she delivered it to her husband the oil layer over the water clearly had some effect on the the thermal properties of the soup mixture.
suggest some ideas for investigation it's not acceptable to use a standard physics text method or to determine a known quantity. for example you cannot offer a plan to measure the specific heat capacities of the two substances.a little imagination is required.

First of all, forget Chinese food. it stinks. too oily. you could do an MRI of the tissue damage done to the roof of your mouth after eating oily chinese noodles and italian ones. my data shows a 63% rise in 2nd and 3rd degree burns (+/- 2.3%).

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