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Both terms refer to the transfer of heat between bodies,

1) convection is for liquids and gases. Hot air/water flows upwards, and cold air/water flows downwards. In the process of doing this, both can give off excess heat to colder bodies of air/water/other liquids or gases.

2) conduction is only for solids. If you heat up soup, and left an iron ladle in the boiling soup, after a while, the ladle would be very hot as well, because the heat of the soup is conducted to the lower part of the ladle first, but then the heated part of the lower ladle conducts heat up into the handle of the ladle.

Of course, no one would buy such a horrible kitchenware, and that's why the soup ladles you usually see are insulating metals like aluminum or has a rubber grip (very good insulator)

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