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Conductivity of Different Materials

By Bruce Grossan at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's World Wide Web server for the Supernova Cosmology Project.
http://www.kie.berkeley.edu/people/bruce/therm_demo1a.html
The image shows what happens when you pour the same amount of hot water into two cups, one made of high-conductivity metal and the other made of low-conductivity ceramic. The temperature of the water inside of the mugs at the start is the same, the temperature of boiling water. Watch the temperature change.

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