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Why does a metal spoon feel colder than a wooden spoon when its taken out of the refrigerator?
Metal conducts heat better than wood. When you touch the cold spoons, the heat of your hand travels away more quickly through the metal, so it feels colder.
How does the heat get in to the metal spoon?
since metal is a good conductor of heat, it absorbs the heat and the spoon increases the temperature
Why does a metal spoon feel colder than a wooden spoon when in cold water?
Because metal conducts heat faster than wood. The temperature of the water will be carried up to your hand much more efficiently by the metal spoon than a wooden spoon.
What are 3 examples conduction?
Well, not only three that i know... Keeping a spoon in a boiling pot of water and waiting 5 minuites and touching it again can burn your hand. the heat transfered from the water to the spoon and now the spoon in hot.
Does a metal spoon melt with heat?
it can
Why is it safer to use a nonmetal spoon when cooking something on the stove?
It is safer to use...say a wooden spoon instead of a metal spoon because metal is a heat conductor...or when metal touches heat the heat goes through the metal (it does the same with electricity). There is a simple answer for it!
Is a metal serving spoon a conductor?
No. A metal spoon, and usually anything metal, is a conductor. It conducts electricity, meaning that electricity can flow through it. Rubber is an insulator.
Is a spoon a compound element or mixture?
The material for a spoon is an alloy or a plastic polymer. The polymer is a compound, an alloy is a mixture.
Look at figure 6-1 in your text Explain the transfer of energy in diagram and tell why the metal spoon gets hot?
part of the spoon is heated by contact with the hot water .heat is transferred through the metal spoon, particle by paricle, until the entire spoon is hot.
Why can't use metal spoon to scoop honey?
There is no problem using a metal spoon to scoop honey.
Witct is a better conducter a plastic spoon or a metal spoon?
A metal spoon - plastic does not conduct electricity
When a metal spoon is used in a hot liquid the handle of the spoon soon becomes hot This process of heat transfer is called?
Conduction.
Why can you bend a metal spoon but not a wooden spoon?
because metal is bindable and wood is a solid
What is meant by saying that the metal spoon conducts heat?
The metal spoon is more conductive.
How do you melt a metal spoon?
a metal spoon melts faster because the law of chorny's
Why does a metal spoon get hot in a pot of boiling water?
'nothing, it's like putting a spoon in a hot soup' Wrong ^ As the metal spoon is a better conductor of heat than the air the hot water (or soup) and the spoon as a larger surface area with the air (or active sight) it transfers heat to the surrounding faster, thus cooling the hot liquid faster.
Why does a metal spoon kept in hot tea become hot?
The heat will transfer to the spoon (if metal).
