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Mintaka
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The melting point of gold is 1945 degrees Fahrenheit. Don’t put your hands into it, if you want to still have them.
Now, gold does cool fairly quickly under certain conditions, because it’s a conductor for cold just like for heat. But it’s still nothing to mess with.
Now, the melting point of lead is only 627 degrees Fahrenheit, and it cools quickly. Much safer to play with, although obviously lead fumes and touching lead present certain toxicity problems, and there are certain conditions where, if you wet your hand first and you move it in and out quickly, you can keep still-very-hot lead from actually touching skin. The water film on your skin boils but not you, due to something called the Leidenfrost Effect. But it’s not something you really want to play with. (This is probably how firewalking works, also.)
Tin melts at 449 degrees, which means you can melt it on your stove if you really try hard. (And that’s why tin foil for baking isn’t really made of tin.)
Now, gold does cool fairly quickly under certain conditions, because it’s a conductor for cold just like for heat. But it’s still nothing to mess with.
Now, the melting point of lead is only 627 degrees Fahrenheit, and it cools quickly. Much safer to play with, although obviously lead fumes and touching lead present certain toxicity problems, and there are certain conditions where, if you wet your hand first and you move it in and out quickly, you can keep still-very-hot lead from actually touching skin. The water film on your skin boils but not you, due to something called the Leidenfrost Effect. But it’s not something you really want to play with. (This is probably how firewalking works, also.)
Tin melts at 449 degrees, which means you can melt it on your stove if you really try hard. (And that’s why tin foil for baking isn’t really made of tin.)