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Originally Posted by HarryT
There is no difference in the temperature of the device, whether made of metal or plastic. The only difference is that a metal device has a higher thermal conductivity and hence, if it is at a lower temperature than your body, will extract more heat from your fingers. It is not the machine that gets "cold", but your fingers. The actual machine will end up warmer as a result, because you're heating it up!
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LOL, that sounds like a physicist talking! I suppose it takes one to know one. As you well know, you are of course right, but the poor people who think it's cold aren't going to find your correctness comforting.
