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Experiments were actually recently conducted on this specific subject. The verdict was that the foam cup was the best, followed by plastic, then the mug and a glass cup.
Cups that are made of materials that conduct heat better, and have a higher ratio of surface area to volume. So for instance a tall narrow cup made of copper would melt ice faster in a room of given ambient temperature than a cup that is made from a poor heat conductor like plastic with a wide squat shape.
Actually alkaline batteries use a steel cup coated with carbon as the positive electrode. However the steel is purely structural to support the carbon coating and to prevent leakage of the electrolyte. It does not participate in generating the electricity.
1 cup = 1 cup.1 cup = 1 cup.1 cup = 1 cup.1 cup = 1 cup.
2 oz 1 cup = 8 ounces 1 ounce = 0.12 cup
chipped ceramic cup
Hot chocolate will stay warmer in a Styrofoam cup.
No, clearly it is different by the name alone. -Ceramic is a type of baked clay.
No, nor can it be used that way.
porcelain materials/ ceramic
Either of these might be used. "Which" is the better choice if you are supposed to choose from a limited set of cups (this metal cup or this thin ceramic cup or this thick ceramic cup). If you mean the choice of all existing cups, you might "what cup" or more appropriately "what kind of cup."
There is no carbon in a pure cup of water.
Perhaps because the glass is in amorphous structure and ceramic is in crystalline structure. Glass is a better conductor of heat than ceramic is.
There are many ways of being efficient and avoiding waste. If you pour your coffee into a reusable (ceramic, glass, or metal) cup, even in a restaurant, rather than using a disposable cardboard or Styrofoam cup, that reduces the ecological footprint of drinking that particular cup of coffee. If you walk or bicycle where that is feasible, rather than travelling by car, that creates a smaller ecological footprint. Literally every aspect of your life can be examined to see how to do it efficiently rather than wastefully. Beyond that, you will at some point have an opportunity to influence political decisions, as a voter. That can have larger ecological consequences. The size of your family will also have large ecological consequences (not that you really should start having children as a teenager). The ecological footprint of 3 children is 3 times as large as that of 1 child. The excessive human population of 7 billion people currently living on our planet is the largest single factor causing ecological damage.
In an oil spill in the ocean, the oil rises to the top because it is less dense than water, creating an oil slick on the surface of the ocean. A Styrofoam cup is less dense than a ceramic cup, so the Styrofoam cup will float in water and the ceramic cup will sink.
That depends on what the cup is made of. If it's a metal cup, then it's an electrical conductor. If it's a glass, clay, wood, or ceramic cup, then it's an electrical insulator.
Styrophoam because it has a lot of particles squished together, while the ceramic cup has only fiber and very few particles. And the more particles in any substance equals a warmer being.