If you turn the heat off of boiling water, it cools down pretty quick, and if you leave ice out, it quickly melts. But once it escapes it’s extreme temperature, it then takes much longer for it to get to room temperature. Why is this? /r/
In: Chemistry
The speed of heat transfer is proportional to the temperature difference between the two area.
The closer it get from room temperature, the longuer it takes to dissipate the same amount of energy, the longuer it take to cool off more
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