Re: Thermal Inductance

I would suggest what happened in your case is the steam rose, condensed
on the rebar you were holding, and heated it. Instead of the heat being
propogated through the thermal diffusion we usually think about, the
energy was converted to steam, then transported that way along the rod.

You could mimic that 'external energy transfer' by holding one rod
vertical, hot end up, the other vertical, hot end down. The hot end
down one would heat air that would move along the rod, heating it. Hot
end up would lose thermal energy to the atmosphere.

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