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Why does a metal rod feel cold while a wood rod feels warm when they are actually the same temperature?
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At room temperature, both rods will be colder than your hand. Heat will flow out of your hand into the rods. This gives a cold sensation. The reason the metal feels colder is because the heat goes into the metal from your hand quickly, while in to wood this heat transfer is slow. The metal absorbs heat faster because of its densely packed atomic structure and its ability to conduct heat. Wood is made of large, complex, jumbled molecules that can't transfer heat between themselves quickly.
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