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Can u think of another way the egytians might have tried to reduce frictiona to move the heavy blocks

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The Egyptians used a weird method to reduce friction by pouring water onto the sand, causing the sand to clump together and make it easier to pull along due to the reason that each individual piece of sand doesn't hold it back. They called this weird technique capillary bridges. 
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