2007-05-04 08:26:27 · 11 answers · asked by The Guru 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
thermodynamics, or what's know as 'heat-transfer' always dictates an entity within a 'system' will move towards equalibrium
2007-05-04 08:30:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you left hot coffee on the table for a long period of time, it is going to get cold, don't you think? And ice coffee
will get warm after you add ice to it, don't you think?
Now, that was a stupid question!
2007-05-04 16:06:32 · answer #2 · answered by Lucy44 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it is because heat flows from a hot body to a cold body, a hot cup of coffee is hot wrt its sorroundings and thus heat flows from the cup to the sorroundings ans thus it gets cold, and similarly in cold coffee the heat from sorroundings enters the coffee to make it hot.
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2007-05-04 15:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by Aadil Prabhakar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to do with the ambient temperature or in this case your room temperature. Hot coffee at room temperature will eventually get cooler as it nears the room temperature. The same goes with iced coffee will rise in temperature as it is cooler than the room temperature in the beginning as it reaches the room temperature.
2007-05-04 15:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the temperature of the room... like the cold would get warm to be like the room's temperature as well as the hot.. it cools down to reach the same temperature of the room
2007-05-04 15:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Seafood Lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you set out two cups of coffee, one very hot, and one very cold, in time they will both be room temperature.
2007-05-04 15:35:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
scensory misleading. Basically, you're expecting hot coffee to' be hot or warm, so when it is cold, it's very cold. vice versa for ice coffee.
2007-05-04 15:31:17 · answer #7 · answered by James L 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because everything is going to come to the temperature around it without a consistent way for it to maintain it's heat or it's cold state.
2007-05-04 15:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by BlueSea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the tempertaure eventually equlizes.
2007-05-04 17:05:08 · answer #9 · answered by margarita 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually james L gave you the best answer however all the other literalists are correct.
2007-05-04 15:39:12 · answer #10 · answered by Bullfrog21 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋