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A metal plant stand on a wooden deck feels colder than the wood around it. Is it necessarily colder and how do you explain this?
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∙ 14y ago
If you walk out onto the deck early in the morning when all the things there have been sitting there all night, they are all at right about the same temperature. That's if you measure it. But they'll feel different, and here's why. When you put your hand on a cold piece of wood, heat from you hand enters the wood and begins to warm it. But this heat, this thermal energy, doesn't move very quickly into the wood. With metal, we'll find it feels a lot colder. That's because heat moves much more quickly into the metal than the wood, and because the metal sinks heat from our hand very well, it feels colder. There is also the fact that the heat capacity of metals is generally higher than that of wood, but that really doesn't come into play very much here. Metal, when it's cold, "sucks" the heat out of any body part we put on it, and it does it fairly quickly and efficiently. That's why metals feel colder than wood that is at the same temperature.
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On a cold day why would an iron post be colder than a wooden bench?
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