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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You feel heat transfer. If you lose too much heat, you feel cold. If you can’t get rid of heat quickly enough, you feel warm or hot.
Metal transfers heat faster than paper, therefore, metal takes away your body heat faster, which is why it feels colder to touch.
A fun fact on the side – if you put an ice cube on metal, it will melt faster than the same ice cube on paper plate despite the metal plate feeling colder. The reason is the same – there’s faster heat transfer going on between the ice cube and the metal plate.
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