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'nothing, it's like putting a spoon in a hot soup'
Wrong ^
As the metal spoon is a better conductor of heat than the air the hot water (or soup) and the spoon as a larger surface area with the air (or active sight) it transfers heat to the surrounding faster, thus cooling the hot liquid faster.
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∙ 12y ago
Estrella Huerta
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∙ 12y agoThe metal spoon is a better thermal conductor.
Dilim
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∙ 14y agoThe spoon gets hot because metals are good conductors . Meaning that heat, cold, electricity move through them, certain metals are better than others. Even a wood spoon will conduct if it is soaked in water, of course in this case the water is the conductor.
Ibrahim Lulendo
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∙ 15y agoMetals are generally good conductors of heat. That is, heat moves through the metal easily. Wooden, plastic, bone, etc are poor conductors of heat. So, the heat moves from the hot area (fire, boiling liquid, etc.) throughout the spoon to the handle making it hot, but does not do this with wooden, etc. spoons.
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∙ 11y agoYou drop a metal spoon at 20o C into the pot of boiling water (at 100o C if barometric pressure is 1 atm)
and you will have heat transfer by convection from
the water to the spoon surface, and heat transfer within the solid spoon by
conduction.
Vaxa Uugwanga
the temperature increases because metal spoon is good contact of heat then a plastic spoon.
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∙ 13y agobecause its metal which is cooler than plastic
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∙ 13y agoA metal spoon gets hot as it is a conductor of heat. Conducters pass heat freely through them while insulators (wool, wood, plastic ect) don't.
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∙ 11y agoBecause the metal spoon is an insulator the heat of the hot chocolate is transferred to the spoon.
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∙ 6y agoThe heat will transfer to the spoon (if metal).
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What will happen when you put a metal spoon in boiling water?
some water vapor released from boiling would condense on the cold spoon as water droplets.
How does a spoon get hot in hot water?
Conduction.
Think of a metal spoon in a pot of hot water. How do the particles of the water affect the particles of the spoon?
Conduction is what transfers the heat in this process. The fast moving particles in the hot electric coil collide with the slow-moving particles in the cool pot. The transfer of the heat causes the pot's particles to move faster. Then the pot's particles collide with the water's particles, which in turn collide with the particles of the spoon. As the particles move faster, the metal spoon becomes hotter.
About how many times more soluble in water is sugar than salt?
I did this experiment for school and sugar is the most soluble in boiling hot water. this was my experiment: Sugar: - I had to stir each tea spoon of sugar for quite a while but amazingly it was the most soluble out of all the substances I put in the boiling hot water. I put 7 teaspoons of sugar into half a glass of boiling hot water. Salt: - on the 1st tea spoon the salt dissolved really quickly so I thought that it would be the most soluble but at the 3rd tea spoon it wouldn't dissolve anymore. hope this helps...
If a spoon gets hot quickly when used to stir it is probably made of what?
metal
A metal spoon becomes hot after being left in a pan of boiling water. This is an example of?
Conduction
A metal spoon becomes hot after being left in a pan of boiling water. This is an example of .?
an example of thermal conduction
Joan placed a metal spoon in a pot while boiling some water to make soup After a while she found that the metal spoon is too hot to pick up She wondered how the metal spoon became so hot?
Metal is a good conductor. Loosely held electrons can bump into other atoms and help transfer thermal energy.Transfer of heat.
Why does a metal spoon feel hotter than a wooden spoon when in hot water?
because metal is a conductor which likes hot things
What will happen when you put a metal spoon in boiling water?
some water vapor released from boiling would condense on the cold spoon as water droplets.
What causes your hand to be hot when you touch a spoon that is in boiling water?
Sensory nerves.
A metal spoon was left in a pot of boiling soup the cook burned his finger by touching the spoon why did the finger get burned?
Metal is a conductor. The spoon heated up from the soup and when the cook touched the spoon, he got burned because the spoon was hot from the soup.
Why does a metal spoon kept in hot tea become hot?
The heat will transfer to the spoon (if metal).
Look at figure 6-1 in your text Explain the transfer of energy in diagram and tell why the metal spoon gets hot?
part of the spoon is heated by contact with the hot water .heat is transferred through the metal spoon, particle by paricle, until the entire spoon is hot.
When a metal and a black plastic is put into hot boiling water at the same time which gets hot first?
the metal.
Which type of spoon is better to stir boil water?
I think Plastic or wooden spoon is better because wooden spoon wouldn't be hot like the steel ones if we stir it in the boiling water
Why an empty glass cracks when you pour very hot water into it but it does not crack if there is a metal spoon in it?
As the metal spoon is a good conductor of heat and because heat travels from a hotter reigion to a colder reigion,the metal spoon will conduct heat away from the hot water and thus,the emty glass will not crack.
