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by twic 408 days ago
Depends on the shape of the cup! You can contrive a cup shaped like an exponentially flaring horn, where adding the milk increases the volume a little, which massively increases the surface area, and so leads to faster cooling. Or you can have a cup with a converging top, like a brandy glass, where adding the milk reduces the surface area, and makes cooling even slower.
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And add the twist: what if the cup is made from a highly conductive material?
Clever, but it's implicitly a normal cylindrical cup.