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When you touch a cold surface does cold travel from the surface to your hand or does energy travel from your hand to the cold surface?
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∙ 14y ago
Energy travels from your hand to the surface, because even the slightest touch transfers energy. Cold doesn't transfer from the surface to your hand, your nerves just tell your brain that the surface is cold.
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Does cold travel from the surface to your hand or does energy travel from your hand to the cold surface?
Energy travels from your hand to the cold surface. Cold is merely the relative absence of heat.
What happen if you touch a cold surface?
Personally, because you asked, when I touch a cold surface, my finger feels cold because it contacts some solid liquid or gas that is very very frigid.
How does the common cold travel to a knew host?
Simply by leaving it on a surface to another person. Such as sneezing on your hands and touching something els, and someone without the cold were to touch that they would get it too. From kurtis --- FIRST ANSWER ---
What is cold surface?
A cold surface is a type of surface that feels cool to the touch. A cold surface may refer to a shelf in a refrigerator or a freezer in the home. It could also refer to the ground during the winter.
A sentence using the word surface?
The surface of the granite counter top felt cold to the touch.
Why do we feel cold when we touch ice?
loss of thermal energy from your finger
Why are warm currents warm and cold currents cold?
there are some warm currents as they flow along the earths surface while there some cold currents as they travel below the earths surface
How can you tell if something is conducting thermal energy?
Something is conducting thermal energy if it is hot or cold to touch. Heat is thermal energy and heat can be felt by either the feeling of cold, or hot.
Why does your body feel cold when you are in an air-conditional room?
The sweat is evaporating. Evaporation requires energy - heat. That energy is removed from the surface of your skin, and you feel the loss of energy as cold.
Why are some currents cold and some warm?
there are some warm currents as they flow along the earths surface while there some cold currents as they travel below the earths surface
What causes the sensation of cold when you touch a ice cube?
loss of thermal energy from your finger.
Which way does thermal energy travel?
From the hotter to the cooler
