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Betsy was stirring a pot of hot soup with a large, metal spoon. The phone rang, so she left the spoon in the soup to go answer it. When she came back, the spoon felt very hot. Question: Explain why the metal spoon felt hot. Would a wooden spoon left in hot soup feel warm too? Why or why not? Use the terms insulator and conductor in your response.

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Answer:

The metal spoon felt hot because the heat from the soup passed through the spoon via conduction. No, a wooden spoon wouldn't show similar effects.

Explanation:

  • Heat conductors are the materials that let heat flow through them easily. The metal spoon referred to in the question is a heat conductor.
  • Conduction through the conductor was the reason the spoon felt hot.
  • When heat passes through conduction, heat is passed from one atom to other.Only heat flows across the atoms, the atoms don't move.
  • The insulators are materials that don't let heat flow through them.The wooden spoon is an example of insulator.