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Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with ba...
Less surface area that you are touching, and also, you can see that the corners are cooler than the rest of the object.
mkchoi212
on March 22, 2020
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Yeah but why do the corners get cooler?
graphpapa
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If you think of it like a bunch of cells like minesweeper, where the temperature differential is a function of #of neighbouring air cells - corners are going to cool much faster!
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This is only a guess, but, material in the corners is closer to more surface area so loses heat more quickly
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on March 22, 2020
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