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If the surrounding air is zero degrees Celsius, steel and wood must have also the temperature of zero degrees Celsius. Wood is not warmer as many people believe. Although the temperatures are equal, you will perceive the steel as colder to touch. This is because it will absorb heat from your fingers more quickly than the wood (as it attempts to reduce your finger temperature to zero).
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∙ 13y agoMetal. Wood is porous. Metal is not.
But when heated, wood is colder, because of conduction.
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What would be more comfortable to sit on in the winter wood or metal?
Wood would be better to sit on in winter because metal takes away the heat from your body because it is a conductor. Wood is an insulator so it doesn't conduct heat away from you body very well. There four sitting on wood is better than sitting on metal in winter.
Does a fridge temperature get warmer if the dial is on a higher number or colder?
A refrigerator gets colder when the number is turned higher.
Why is it when you stand further away from a fire you get colder?
Because the heat from fire can not reach very far and so when you stand farther away it gets colder. And you get colder which is what im sayin
Scratch test on metal or wood?
no.
What is unique about water as it gets colder and colder?
It's most dense at 4 degrees celsius. Get any lower and it takes up more volume. As a general rule, chemicals get denser as they get colder.
Why is the leg of a school desk colder than the top of the desk?
It is not colder. Metal conducts heat better (faster) than wood/wood composites so the metal feels colder because it is removing heat from your hand faster than the desktop.
Why a metal feels colder to touch than wood kept in a cold place?
Metal is a thermal conductor and wood is a thermal insulator.when you touch the metal the energy transfer rapidlyto the metal,making it colder.when you touch the wood the energy transfer very slowly from your hand to the wood kept in a cold place.
Is the metal object really colder than the piece of wood at the same room temperature?
Yes, absolutely.
Why metal feels colder than a wooden fence?
Metal will conduct heat better than wood. While both the metal and the wood are the same temperature, heat will flow from your hands to the metal very quickly (and you feel cold). When you touch wood, a poor conductor, heat does not flow from you as quickly.
Why does metal feels colder than a wooden fence?
Metal will conduct heat better than wood. While both the metal and the wood are the same temperature, heat will flow from your hands to the metal very quickly (and you feel cold). When you touch wood, a poor conductor, heat does not flow from you as quickly.
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.
Why doesn't it boil over when you put a wooden spoon over it?
because it is wood not metal ,metal gets heated really fast but wood nahh
Why a piece of metal feels colder than wood kept in cold place?
Lets say room temp is 75 degrees. Your body temp is around 98 degrees. metal conducts heat very well so when you touch it all the heat is transferred to the metal whereas wood is more insulating and the heat from your finger leaves at a much slower rate. Also, there is also a difference in emissivity between the two materials. They radiate energy differently. The metal object not only feels colder in the room (or hotter in the sun), it really is a different temperature. Wiki/Google "emissivity." Metal is a thermal conductor and Wood is a thermal insulator. When you touch the metal, the energy transfers rapidly to the metal, making it colder. When you touch the wood, the energy transfers very slowly from your hand to the wood.
A metal plant stand on a wooden deck feels colder than the wood around it. Is it necessarily colder and how do you explain this?
If you walk out onto the deck early in the morning when all the things there have been sitting there all night, they are all at right about the same temperature. That's if you measure it. But they'll feel different, and here's why. When you put your hand on a cold piece of wood, heat from you hand enters the wood and begins to warm it. But this heat, this thermal energy, doesn't move very quickly into the wood. With metal, we'll find it feels a lot colder. That's because heat moves much more quickly into the metal than the wood, and because the metal sinks heat from our hand very well, it feels colder. There is also the fact that the heat capacity of metals is generally higher than that of wood, but that really doesn't come into play very much here. Metal, when it's cold, "sucks" the heat out of any body part we put on it, and it does it fairly quickly and efficiently. That's why metals feel colder than wood that is at the same temperature.
The climate of highland gets colder as you get higher?
it does get colder
What gets hotter when it gets colder?
a heater
What metal is made of wood's metal?
Wood is wood. It is not metal, it is a living thing.
