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In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
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Giessen , spelled Gießen in German ( -RSB- -RSB- , is a town in the German federal state ( " Bundesland " ) of Hesse , capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen .
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Gießen or Giessen is a city in the German state of Hesse .


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Merton College ( in full : The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England .
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Merton College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford .


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Heat capacity or thermal capacity is a physical property of matter , defined as the amount of heat to be supplied to a given mass of a material to produce a unit change in its temperature .
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Heat capacity is a measure of how much materials can store up heat as they change temperature .