Wearing a Silver Ring I found... Forgot how conductive these things are!

[Skippy SH13]

I'm used to having my rings feel slightly cold to the touch. Silver is like it isn't even there. I brushed it up against my face, to see what was up, and the ring actually felt warm. Then I remembered that Silver is highly conductive (I like to show kids how fast ice melts on a silver coin... the reverse is true, too, those things will transfer heat fast!).

Kind of a fun thing to notice. Just thought I'd pass it along.

 

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[Msbeepbeep]

Yep, and be careful where you put it!
My friend's mother found a quarter at the beach, had no where to keep it, so she tucked it in the top of her 2 piece bathing suit. Later that day when she got home she had a red burn mark under where the quarter was.

 

[hvacker]

I was silver soldering a piece of copper when a blob fell on a gold ring on my hand. It went nuclear. Severe burn almost to the bone.

I knew an electrician who always wore a ring. I asked if that was a good idea. He said his wife was superstitious and didn't want him to ever take it off. I wondered if having him electrocuted would change all that.

In the Air Force, we were shown a picture of a finger with a ring. Told a guy slipped on a airplane wing and on his way down the ring got caught on something but he kept going.

Jewelry is problematic.

 

[BosnMate]

I was silver soldering a piece of copper when a blob fell on a gold ring on my hand. It went nuclear. Severe burn almost to the bone.

I knew an electrician who always wore a ring. I asked if that was a good idea. He said his wife was superstitious and didn't want him to ever take it off. I wondered if having him electrocuted would change all that.

In the Air Force, we were shown a picture of a finger with a ring. Told a guy slipped on a airplane wing and on his way down the ring got caught on something but he kept going.

Jewelry is problematic.

That reminds me, when I was in 9th grade, the Principal's ring finger was totally gone. I asked him about it. He was in B-17's and the Germans shot the airplane down. To bail out of a 17 you went out the bomb bay. His wedding band got hung up in the airplane, he got clear, the ring and finger went down with the aircraft.

 

[texasred777]

Back in the late 1950s, a boy I went to school with, lived on a farm. He was in a trailer empting cotton sacks. The motorized cotton pickers were just beginning to catch on and his family paid for 'live' cotton pickers. When he was finished, he jumped over the side of the trailer. His class ring caught the edge of the trailer and tore his finger completely off where his finger joined his hand.

 

[G.I.B.]

Hummmm.... got an old silver serving tray. I'll have to try that for defrosting chicken.