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Have you ever heard of thermal underwear? Some people wear it in the winter time to keep themselves warm. Thermal underwear is a good insulator. Insulators are materials which do not conduct heat very well and so we can use them to control heat and keep things hot or cold. Thermos flasks are made from insulating materials. Conductors are the opposite of insulators. Heat passes quite easily through them. We can use conductors to move heat, for example, radiators are made from metal. That's because metal is a good conductor of heat and so metal radiators warm rooms or cool engines much more quickly than wooden ones would!
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'Thermal' means to do with heat
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Conductors and insulators are opposites to one another
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Oven mitts protect our hands when we hold hot things
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Metals conduct heat very well
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Gold, copper and steel are all metals and would make very poor thermal insulators
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Because it is an excellent thermal insulator, wooden handles will not burn your hands even when the pot is hot
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Cold cannot transfer, or travel, from one material to another. Only heat can be transferred. Heat moves from warmer materials to cooler materials - when you go outside on a frosty day, heat is transferred from your warm face to the cold air!
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Thermos bottles are excellent thermal insulators - they can keep coffee piping hot. A material which can keep hot things hot can also keep cold things cold
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Plastic would melt if it got too hot so it would be no good inside a cooker or on the bottom of a pan
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Metal spoons can get very hot, especially when they've been left in the pot for a while!
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