State two applications of conduction.
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After a car is turned on, the engine becomes hot. The hood will become warm as heat is conducted from the engine to the hood.
A radiator is a good example of conduction. Anything placed on the radiator, like an article of clothing, will become warm.
You can warm your back muscles with a heating pad.
Roasting wieners over a campfire is fun until the heat from the fire is conducted up the coat hanger to your hand.
Trying to cross the street barefoot in the summer may result in heat being conducted from the asphalt to your feet.
The heat from a hot liquid makes the cup itself hot.
An ice cube will soon melt if you hold it in your hand. The heat is being conducted from your hand into the ice cube.
Hot food will heat a stoneware or porcelain plate for a time.
If you are cold and someone holds you to warm you, the heat is being conducted from their body to yours.
Heat will transfer from a hot burner on the stove into a pot or pan.
A metal spoon becomes hot from the boiling water inside the pot.
Chocolate candy in your hand will eventually melt as heat is conducted from your hand to the chocolate.
When ironing a skirt, the iron is hot and the heat is transferred to the skirt.
If you stoke your log fire in the fireplace with a poker and leave the poker in the fire, it will become very hot.
A heat exchanger uses a hot fluid to conduct heat to a cooler fluid without the two touching.
If you touch a hot stove, heat will be conducted to your finger and your skin will burn.
Sand can conduct heat. Walking on the beach on a hot summer day will warm your feet.
Light bulbs give off heat and it you touch one that is on, your hand will get burned.