imagine im in a kitchen. if i touch a paper plate, it feels lukewarm. if i touch a knife, it feels kinda cold. why do they feel like different temperatures?
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Because of conductivity.
You aren’t feeling the temperature, you are feeling the transfer of heat between your hand and the object. Room temperature is colder than your hand, and a room temperature peice of metal will suck the heat away from your hand than if it were wood of plastic.
The same goes in the opposite. If the object were hotter than your hand, the metal would feel hotter, as it would transfer the heat to your hand faster than wood or plastic.
If almost the object were the same temperature as your hand, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
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