why does your tongue get stuck to iron/steel in freezing weather, but not other body part?
In: Physics
Totally uneducated response, but I would assume it’s due to the moisture content on the surface of your tongue. I think it’s actually the moisture freezing between your tongue and the iron/steel/really cold conductive thing that acts as a bridge or adhesive between the two mediums. If you got your hand nice and wet then put it on a freezing-temperature metal object, you’d likely see the same thing happen. Basically, it’s less a matter of your tongue getting stuck to “the thing” and more your tongue getting stuck to the frozen saliva, which itself is also stuck to “the thing.”
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