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How long do insulated carafes keep a cup of tea warm?
This depends on the insulation used in the particular carafe, and how hot it must be to be considered an acceptable temperature. A carafe with a vacuum flask interior can keep tea hot for hours.
Why does the hot tea in a Thermos flask remain hot for a long time?
The Thermos (vacuum) flask has a double skinned glass cylinder inside. Between the two walls of the glass cylinder is a vacuum. The glass cylinder is also silvered on all inner and outer surfaces. Both the vacuum and the silvering help to prevent the rapid cooling of a hot liquid, or the warming of a cold liquid. The vacuum inhibits heat transfer by conduction. The silvering reflects the heat and inhibits the heat escaping from the flask. Thermos (often used for a vacuum flask) is a trade-name.Eventually, as anyone who uses a vacuum flask, the once hot drink will have become cool by the end of the day.
What is the function of a flask?
a flask is where people pour hot drinks and take it out with them. the flask ensures that the drink remains hot for several hours so someone may take it for a picnic, prepare tea at 9 in the morning, and at 3 in the afternoon the tea is still hot.
Why does tea stay hot in a glass teapot?
Heat can be transferred in three ways: conduction, convection, radiation. In a vacuum flask, conduction and convection are greatly reduced through a vacuum (hence the name!) between two glass layers, whereas radiation is greatly reduced by the mirror coating on the same glass. As a result, heat takes much longer to get out - or in, since you can also keep cold things in a vacuum flask.Note that no vacuum flask will keep things hot (or cold) indefinitely; it simply takes much longer for hot things to cool down, or for cold things to heat up.
What can be held in a thermos flask?
Hot drinks such as tea and coffee are usually held in a thermos flask. The flask will keep the drink warm for several hours when one is outside or on the move. Cold drinks can also be kept in them or even non drinking liquids that one wishes to keep at a steady temperature.
What is a good insolater?
a flask is an insolator because if you have coffee,tea or juic it keeps it hot and cold
Should you use a flask which is a good conductor of heat or poor conductor to keep the tea inside the flask warm?
a poor conductor of heat. a good conductor of heat will allow the heat to pass though the flask and escape cooling the tea. so a poor conductor just to clarify.
How does kettle keep tea hot?
with the force!!
Which type of container keep liquid hotter longer?
If you are using wood, metal, plastic, or a thermos it would have to be a thermos because inside of it there insulators. Insulators are used to keep whatever is inside the same without the stuff outside interfering. Why else do you think we drink hot coffee in a thermos.
Why do tea drinkers prefer a teacup?
They prefer tea cups as tea is served very hot and a tea cup is thinner than a coffee mug so the tea will cool quicker oppossed to a coffee mug which is supposed to keep your coffee hot.
How is convection prevented in thermos flask?
A glass thermos 'bottle' is constructed as a bottle-within-a-bottle and there is a slight vacuum between the bottles, since heat can't travel within a vacuum it will keep the contents hot/cold for a long time. In addition, they usually have a mirror coating on the outside to reflect hot/cold from the environment. The cap usually is hollow with an insulating material like cork or poly-foam.
What happen when you poured a cup of tea into a flask on the moon surface?
it disloves
