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Show Why the Kettle Won't Burn You WHY can you put your finger on the bottom of a steaming teakettle without being burned? ls a question sent to Popular Science Monthly, which answers as follows: Because the heat of tho fire has been transferred trans-ferred from rhe kettlo bottom to the water which ls boilin? and forming steam. It Is for tho same reason that kettles with soldered bottoms, and containing water, can be safely placed over a fire. Tho greed of the water for the heat carries car-ries it. away so rapidly that the temperature of the metal is unable to rise high enough to melt the solder. |