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Steel is more conductive than plastic is. The reason for this is that iron is more reactive than plastics are as they have valence electrons and plastic does not.

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Why does a piece of steel heat up more than equal mass of plastic when both absorb the same energy?

Steel is more conductive than plastic is. The reason for this is that iron is more reactive than plastics are as they have valence electrons and plastic does not.


Why does a piece of steel heat up more than equal mass of plastic when both absorb same energy?

Steel is more conductive than plastic is. The reason for this is that iron is more reactive than plastics are as they have valence electrons and plastic does not.


Why does a piece of steel heat up more than an equal mass of plastic when both absorb the same heat?

Steel has a heat capacity of about 0.49 kJ/kg/°C. Solid plastics have a heat capacity of about 1.67 kJ/kg/°C. It thus takes more energy to warm plastic 1 °C than to warm steel 1 °C. As to why steel has a higher heat capacity than plastic... It may be because plastics have more ability to absorb energy into the vibrational modes of the atoms in the long polymer chains than steel does in its fairly fixed crystaline/metal structure.


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