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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by toaster ovens were always excited when

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a toaster oven is used in an experiment because that

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means we're doing science and we're eating a hot pocket

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Perfect afternoon Yeah i think you're good All right a

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group of students has given five unknown metals and a

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toaster oven They're tasked with ranking the thermal conductivity values

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of the five medals which of the following pieces of

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lab equipment should they use select two answers aren't a

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thermometer purple being bounds of watering stand all right Well

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usually cooking appliances aren't used in science but there was

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that one time when we roasted marshmallows over a bunsen

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burner That experiment taught us that it's really tough to

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get cooked marshmallows off of countertops and that mrs smith's

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face turns really red when she's mad so we got

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some pretty important results there In this experiment though we're

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determining thermal conductivity which is a measure of how well

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a material conducts heat To rank the thermal conductivity of

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these materials the students need to see how efficiently each

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piece of metal transfers heat and a triple beam balance

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Isn't gonna help with that at all Neither is a

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ring stand This thing so answer is b andy won't

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be used in this experiment We don't have anything against

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them They just don't have much to do with temperature

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and know What we need to do is slap these

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medals in the toaster oven crank it up and start

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the stopwatch After a period of time we take the

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medals out of the oven wearing our kiss the cook

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oven mitts because safety comes first and we love those

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mitts and take their temperature with thermometer the hottest medals

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will be the best conductors and the not so hot

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medals will be the worst and the hot pocket will

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be a nuclear inferno Inside melting off the skin inside 00:01:42.288 --> [endTime] our mouth out

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