What makes objects feel hot or cold?
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the abscense (sp?) or presence of heat
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Foil because its a solid sheet and reflects heat.\nThen fur as it will trap the heat thus letting as little as possible escape.\nLast felt because its porous and doesn't trap heat well.
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Cool/cold....if it's warm, I always feel like it's not clean, even if I just cleaned it an hour before.\nIn a perfect world, that is a fixture that would not be shared with anyone else, everyone would get their very own.
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It's basically how much colder the wind makes it feel like outside. That's why the weather websites (http://www.weather.com/) they tell you the actual temperature and what it really feels like. The "what it feels like" temperature is the actual temperature minus the wind chill.
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Insulation. The reason hot stuff gets cold and cold gets hot is that the temperature is dispersed among the area so that eventually an equilibrium is formed and the temperature is constant.  By creating a mini thermo area a flask provides no thermodynamic properties for the heat to disperse
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Air Pressure.  The humidity and such in the air is higher and therefore holds more warmth.\n\nAt higher altitudes, where the air is less dense, there is greater distance between particulates and heat is lost faster.
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When an object is hot, it heats the air around it.  These air currents that result give whatever you're weighing a buoyancy effect.  The warm air actually supports some of the weight the hot object, so the mass that the balance reads is artificially low.
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The scientific explanation is simple enough.  It is the automaticity of stimulus response.  There are numerous other stimulus response automaticities "built into" the humanoid organism. Another specific would be the shiver mechanism that automatically kicks in (for some humans) upon exposure to a suddenly colder temperature.
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Psychological desire to get a temperature contrast when coming in from outside (cool down in summer, warm up in winter)\n\nAnd humidity. Insisde air is more humid in summer, so same temperature feels hotter.
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The phrasing is wierd, shouldn't there be a from between flow and the?\n\nIf two substances have different _temperatures_, heat will flow [from] the hotter [substance] to the colder [substance].\n\nThis is because heat, at the molecular level, is related to how fast molecules are moving. When a substance whose molecules are moving faster comes in contact with an object that's moving slower, the faster molecules will collide with the slower molecules of the second object, slowing down the faster molecules while speeding up the slower ones. Thus, heat (average kinetic energy of a substance) is transferred from the hotter substance to the colder one.
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some cold, some hotter
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I think the key words in your question are "at room temperature".  See, room temperature is less than body temperature.  Heat energy wants to go from a higher temp region to a lower temp region.  But, water absorbs heat energy at a faster rate than air.  So, the cooling feeling (or transfer of heat away from your body into the surrounding medium) is greater in water than in air.  Now, turn on a fan and have more air, thus more cooling medium moving over you taking heat away and it will feel cooler even inf the air is at the same room temperature.
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It really depends on where you're shot at and what you got hit with.  When the bullet stays in, yes, it does feel really hot, but you can also feel it getting numb and cold too...kind of like what you'd think being stabbed by a red hot poker would feel like...only harder and faster.
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"Hot" is a very subjective word.  How "hot" is "hot"? 100 degrees C? 500 degrees C?\n\nWhen an object absorbs heat energy its temperature rises, there is no way around it.  But for a given quanity of heat energy (Q) absorbed, some materials will increase in temperature (delta T) more than others.\n\nThe term "Specific Heat" (c) releates the amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of a substance 1 degree C.\n\nQ = m*c*(delta T)\nHeat enegry = mass of the object * the specific heat * change in temperature\n\nA higher specific heat means that the material will experience a relatively smaller change in temperature for a given amount of heat as compared to another material with a higher specific heat.\n\nUsually, metals tend to have somewhat low specific heats but there are some metals which are higher than others.\nFor instance,...\n-Iron has a specific heat of .444 J/g degree C\n-Copper has a specific heat of .385 J/g degree C\n-Lithium metal (not that this is a practical building material) has a specific heat of 3.582 J/g degree C\n-liquid water's c = 4.184 J/g degree C\n\nmore complete tables of specific heat can heasily be found on the internet.
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After you eat, a large portion of your blood goes to your stomach to aid in digestion. This can reduce the volume of blood going to your extremities and skin, making you feel colder.\n\nNot everyone gets cold after eating - it depends on the individual's circulatory system.
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Water isn't solid, how come we feel that?\nSomething doesn't have to be soild for us to feel it. Heat is energy usualy transmited throuh radiation. When the radiation hits a surface, say your body, it causes to motion of the atoms in the surface to accelerate. The resulting friction is precieved as heat.
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The other answer about wet bodies being colder then dry is nonsense.\n\nThe answer is in thermal conductivity and heat capacity.  Your body cannot conduct heat to the air very well; the thermal conductivity is very low. You most of the heat you conduct is to the air immediately adjacent to your body- and it takes very little body heat to warm that thin layer of air because the heat capacity of the air is low.  Since your body gave up only a little heat, it didn't feel very cold.  Blowing air feels much colder, because that thin layer of warmed air keeps getting replaced by more cold air, so you body keeps giving up heat.\n\nThe tiles on the floor have great thermal conductivity to your body, and they have a lot of heat capacity.  So your body is able to very quickly transfer heat to the floor, and it takes a lot of heat before the tiles get warm, so your body looses a lot of heat and you feel cold.