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>durr magcargo not hot as sun because me no understand physic
Heat takes time to transfer. If you place a pot of water on the stove, it’s not going to instantaneously boil. It takes a few minutes for it to warm up, as the heat from the stove transfers into the water.
In fact, heat transfer is a lot more complicated than just temperature. Different materials can speed up or slow down the process. A metal can of soda, for example, feels a lot colder than the liquid inside it, even though they are both at the same temperature. This is because metal is a conductor, it is better at transferring energy than the liquid is: and heat is just energy. When you touch the metal, the heat can transfer quickly, making it feel cold. When you touch the soda, the heat won’t transfer as quickly, so it doesn’t feel as cold. Conductors transfer heat more quickly than insulators. It takes a lot less time to warm up a piece of metal than it does to warm up the soda.
You’re a human, with a body temperature of about 97 degrees F (36 C). And yet, when the temperature of the air outside is 90 degrees F (32 C), it feels really hot outside, not cold. This has to do with heat transfer: the human body is constantly releasing heat, sure, but the hotter the air is, the less easily the air will accept your body heat from you. Since the air is hotter, it behaves less like the cold metal can and more like an insulator, so the heat is trapped in your body, can’t leave, so you feel hotter.
So it just really has to do with what Magcargo is made out of. Sure, it’s body temperature is reportedly 18,000 F (10,000 C). But it’s body is also exceptionally good at holding that heat inside of itself: it doesn’t release body heat like humans do, or if it does, it releases the heat very, very slowly: not fast enough to make any real impact on the environment around it. It is a snail, after all.
