Monday, May 10, 2010

Why do we feel cold when we put nail polish remover in our hand?

ive never injected nail polish remover into my hand. its alcohol and i've drank alcohol, but that always makes me warmer?Why do we feel cold when we put nail polish remover in our hand?
Nail polish remover or so called acetone is a highly volatile substance, that is, it evaporates easily in a little time. Now, when we put some of it in our hand, it evaporates and as in evaporation, a substance takes 80 calories of heat with it, making the surroundings cool as the heat energy is lost to the substance that evaporated. Basically, it takes the heat energy from our palm and because of this heat, evaporates and makes our palm feel cold.Why do we feel cold when we put nail polish remover in our hand?
Evaporation of the fluid draws heat from your finger. The solvent in the nail polish remover has a much lower boiling point than water, so the evaporation is faster and hence colder.





Research on the term ';latent heat'; in some physics textbook for more details.
It is basically sucking the heat from your hand into it. So it feels cold.
If you put Alcohol on your hand it does the same thing
because it has acetone in it.


put pure acetone on your hands and walk outside..wait dont


i did


its so cold it hurts

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