Why is it that when you sit still in cold water and you get used to the temperature, but when you move it feels cold again?
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Water is really good at soaking up heat.
Moving water soaks up heat more efficiently, because the bits of water that just soaked up some heat move on and are immediately replaced by bits of water which haven’t soaked up heat yet, and they immediately proceed to do so, and then are immediately replaced…
This is why you can defrost frozen foods very efficiently with running water, even if it’s running *cold* water. The fact that the water is *moving* is drastically more impactful.
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