Re:Runway melts at London Luton airport as temperatures in U...
by WalterBright on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @04:49PM
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I was always careful to put my tools in the shade under the car :-)
(Used to live in Glendale.)
I well remember working on my parents' car in Phoenix summers. The chromed wrenches on our driveway surface got to instant-blister temperatures. Tools with black surfaces were uncomfortable to pick up, but were usable.
The chromed tools had a lower absorption of sunlight than the black tools, but their IR radiation coefficient was even lower. So equilibrium temperature (at which radiated energy = incident energy) was much higher for the chromed tools.