Re:On the existence of two states in liquid water [pdf]
by icegreentea on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @01:25PM
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Thats because you have enough thermal mass and evaporative cooling capacity to withstand those temperatures for a short period of time - ie, very little of your body will experience drastically elevated temperatures for long - if at all. Remember that air (even humid air) is not a super great heat conductor - so while the air might be very hot, it's going to be pretty bad transferring that into your body, which in turn has a lot of mass to distrube heat over, and good conductivity to move heat away from contact areas. And that whole sweat thing works pretty well too (especially in a dry sauna).
Being submerged into a 90 degree water bath will probably rapidly hideously wound you and/or kill you.
But why are sauna temperatures above this, being in the range of 70C-90C?