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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: MOLTEN METALS.--PRINCIPLES OF
HEAT-RESISTANCE PUT TO PRACTICAL
USES: ALDINI, 1829.--IN EARLY FIRE-
FIGHTING. TEMPERATURES THE BODY
CAN ENDURE.
The spheroidal condition of liquids was
discovered by Leidenfrost, but M. Boutigny
was the first to give this singular subject careful
investigation. From time out of mind the test
of letting a drop of water fall on the face of
a hot flat-iron has been employed to discover
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