Why is it that warm food/drinks get cold when left out but cold food/drinks get warm when left out?
In: Physics
It’s all about relative temperatures. Two things will tend to balance their temperatures, so hot stuff will cool down in cooler air, and cold stuff will heat up in hotter air (relative to each thing being left outside)
The same principle applies as to snow melting and (the air is warmer than the snow) or water freezing (the air is cooler than the water)
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