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Something for nothing: Engineer David Pei demonstrates a microwave baking process using peanuts at his University of Waterloo lab
Something for nothing: Engineer David Pei demonstrates a microwave baking process using peanuts at his University of Waterloo lab

Something for nothing: Engineer David Pei demonstrates a microwave baking process using peanuts at his University of Waterloo lab

Date7/19/1984
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