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If you hold one end of a metal nail against a pice of ice the end in your hand soon becomes cold Does cold flow from the ice to your hand explain?
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∙ 15y ago
Rather than the cold flowing down to your hand, its heat flowing up to the ice. The ice wants to change states(solid to liquid). It pulls the heat from the metal, which is pulling it from your hand. Everything wants to reach an equilibrium, this is why there is wind, ocean currents, etc. Heat is no different.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoNo, "cold" does not flow. The "heat" would flow from your hand to the nail to the ice.
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