it's the inverse of thermal conductivity. "Thermal resistance" is very commonly used in electronics.

Good examples for demonstrating how these terms are used would be if you heated one end of a ceramic rod (which has high thermal resistance but low conductivity), it might take an extremely long time to feel heat at the opposite end. However, doing the same with a copper rod (which has low thermal resistance but high conductivity), you will feel heat at the opposite end quickly.

In terms of science, a valid answer to your question is quite complex because it depends on how the heat is applied (conduction, convection or radiation), the mass of the object being heated, whether the object is liquid, solid or gas along with some other properties of the substance.

It's been around 50-years since I studied thermodynamics so about all I know now is a little basic practice like boiling water for oatmeal....

It’ll put a whole new spin on oatmeal.

Also love hot oat bran cereal and almond milk sounds good mixed in with it, too.......

Yeah, it's complicated.

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I got that from my wife, who’s a scientist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity

Heat capacity and specific heat are equilibrium properties that don’t tell you “how fast” an object becomes hot or cold, but tells you how much energy must be added or removed to effect a change of temperature.

Thermal conductivity tells you how fast you can add or remove heat to it.

But, in general, neither of those things is relevant to how hot or cold something feels. The perception of temperature by, say, your hand, is a complex physical and biological process.

What do you really want to know?

96.8 to freezing in a matter of seconds!

Mine used Kelvin.

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