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[โ€“] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

3 mechanisms for heat transfer: conduction (heat moves from one bit of matter to another when they are touching), convection (in a fluid, hot matter move about), and radiation (pure heat, only form that goes through a vacuum, this is just like lower frequency light that we can't see).

[โ€“] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks, I thought conduction was under convection, so to say