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If you have wet hands and pick up a piece of metal that is below freezing point you may stick to it This doesn't happen with wood Why not?
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∙ 16y ago
Metals have high heat conductivity compared to wood. When your hands touch a piece of wood the surface layer of the wood heats up to your skin temperature quickly and does not transfer this heat very quickly to the bulk of the wood. Therefore your skin ends up transferring very little heat and does not cool down very much. When you pick up a piece of metal heat begins transferring from your hands to the surface of the metal and is easily carried away into the bulk of the metal. The surface layer of the metal therefore doesn't heat up very quickly (it's passing most of the heat your hands give it into the bulk) and your skin therefore loses a lot of heat and cools down a lot. It some cases the outside of your skin can quickly drop below freezing. If your hands have any moisture on them then this moisture might freeze, "sticking" you to the piece of metal.
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