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Why do you feel warm when you are standing away from a campfire?
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Can you explain why you feel warm when you are standing away from a campfire?
A fire burns fuel to produce heat and gasses. Some of the heat comes off as visible light and some warms the air in and around the fire and this rises with the smoke.However, allot of the heat comes off as infra red radiation - a form of light that you can not see with your eyes, but that you can feel with your skin (as the warmth from the fire).Your skin is always trading heat with its surroundings, your body is always losing heat at a moderate rate to the air touching it. When more heat comes in than goes out, the skin feels warm. So the side of you that faces a fire will feel hot because it is getting more heat than it is losing (because it is absorbing the infra red radiation), while your back surface is shaded from the fire's energy (by your front) and this will be losing more heat than it is receiving and will therefore feel cold.
Why do you feel warm when it is going to rain?
When you feel warm it is not normal rain falling--it is acid rain. When the rain is warm stay indoors.
Why does a refrigerator warm a room?
If you feel behind a fridge, you will feel the warm air. This warmth is from the inside of the fridge as the inside is cooled, and from the pump.
Eyeballs feel warm?
kinda its more like room temperature but its more warm than cold
What causes something to feel warm of cool against your skin?
With me it is a reaction to accidentally injesting MSG - monosodium glutamate. I feel like it is a 1000 degrees in the house and my husband says my skin is ice cold. It comes with other symptoms like my mouth, nose and eyes getting very dry. It lasts about 10 minutes and then settles down to where I just am shaking inside, and then finally that goes away.
What makes a campfire an example of Radiation?
A campfire is an example of radiation because heat is being emitted from the fire. The heat is what is being radiated, and the heat is a characteristic of the campfire.
Can you explain why you feel warm when you are standing away from a campfire?
A fire burns fuel to produce heat and gasses. Some of the heat comes off as visible light and some warms the air in and around the fire and this rises with the smoke.However, allot of the heat comes off as infra red radiation - a form of light that you can not see with your eyes, but that you can feel with your skin (as the warmth from the fire).Your skin is always trading heat with its surroundings, your body is always losing heat at a moderate rate to the air touching it. When more heat comes in than goes out, the skin feels warm. So the side of you that faces a fire will feel hot because it is getting more heat than it is losing (because it is absorbing the infra red radiation), while your back surface is shaded from the fire's energy (by your front) and this will be losing more heat than it is receiving and will therefore feel cold.
Why do you feel the heat while standing in front of a fireplace when most of the heat is really rising up and out of the chimney?
Because heat is warm Dr N John
How does a heart warm-up make you feel?
how does it feel it feel a heart warm up
Why does your face feel warm?
Your face might feel warm because your hot.
Who said people should give away there excess money?
becaue it helps the world, and it makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside
What it feels like to sit by a campfire?
It feels warm and calm but when your face gets the temperature hot, you would feel a little bit uncomfortable. I am not sure of a lot of details but I am telling this answer because I have a fireplace at my house. I am sorry if I had a mistake, but it is a good question. Keep on using your skills!!!!!!!!
How does a penguin keep warm?
a penguin keeps warm with its blubber
Why do you feel warm when it is going to rain?
When you feel warm it is not normal rain falling--it is acid rain. When the rain is warm stay indoors.
How do you know if you're falling in love?
you will feel all warm and like loved like you wanna go to the last step straight away
How does a giraffe stay warm?
by standing under the tree or by her skin
If you are standing on the equator?
You are uncomfortably warm and your clothes are all stuck to you.
