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Find out the minimum height from which a piece of ice should be dropped to the ground so that it melts completely. Assume that 20% of energy is lost. `J = 4.2 xx 10^(7) erg cdot cal^(-1)` and latent heat of fusion of ice `= 80 cal cdot g^(-1)`.

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