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When you get a burn, your body has mechanisms that tell it that you are in great danger. There are nerves that sense heat called thermoreceptors, and when they get stimulated from heat that could cause a burn, it sends a signal to the spinal cord. It recognizes the danger and reacts instantly by sending a signal to muscles in the area of the potential burn to contract. That is why when you touch something really hot, like a stove, that your hand jerks back away from it even before you realize that it's hot. This is one of the body's protective mechanisms.

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