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Would this even work? Lol

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[-] jana@leminal.space 8 points 11 months ago

Counterpoint: drink a cold drink through a plastic straw and a metal straw, with your fingers on the straw. See which one feels cooler.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 11 points 11 months ago

Leave a block of wood and a brick of steel in a freezer for 24 hours and see which one feels cooler - they’ll be the same actual temperature (at least negligibly close the longer they’re left) but the metal will feel immensely cooler to the touch due to its higher capacity for heat transference.

[-] jana@leminal.space 3 points 11 months ago

Doesn't that just agree with what I'm saying? The metal is going to transfer heat more easily than the plastic

[-] Turun@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

There are two compounding factors

  • heat capacity: any short term experiment will measure heat capacity first, conduction second

  • locality of contact: contact along the whole length of the straw eliminates heat conduction along the length of the straw. A single point of contact (holding the straw with fingers instead of the whole hand) behaves differently.

I thought plastic straws were thinner than 0.2 mm, so maybe the metal is actually better.

It's fun arguing about these technicalities though!

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