If I leave a glass of water on my nightstand overnight and drink it the next morning, the temperature feels notably cooler than that of the air surrounding me. What causes this sensation?
In: Biology
When you touch something cold, what you are really feeling is the movement of heat from your body into the cold object. When something is more conductive, it will allow heat to move into it more quickly. Even though water is the same temperature as the air, water is more conducive, so the heat from you’r hand moves into the water more quickly, which makes it feel like it’s colder.
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