Question

cooking utensils are made from metal due to their property of _____​

Answer 1

Answer:

Heat conductor

Explanation:

Cooking utensils are made from metals due to their property of "heat conduct". ➡ cooking utensils can be found to be made of wood, metal, plastic or silicon. ➡ Cooking utensils are made out of metal because metal is an excellent heat conductor.

Answer 2

Cooking utensils are made from metal due to their property of heat conduction.

Explanation:

Metals have free electrons that are not bounded to the atoms.

• Electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, which can easily leave the atom and become free are called free electrons. These are easy to move out because the atom size is large and since less than 4 electrons are in outmost shell, the force of attraction becomes less.

• These electrons are free to move around within the metal, colliding with the metal atoms and transferring heat to them efficiently. This makes metals better conductors of heat than most other materials.

• As metals are good in conducting heat, it can transfer heat very quickly and evenly.

• Generally, copper, aluminium metals are used for cooking vessels as they are very good conductors of heat. Due to this reason metals are used in cooking vessels.