• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    50C is near OSHA’s max limit to touch safe zones which is 60C. At 60C, no matter how many seconds, you will get burnt. At 50C you can hold an object for a few seconds safely.

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      5 months ago

      But also keep in mind that it’s usually air temperature being measured, with surface temperatures being even worse than that!

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        5 months ago

        You know how 0C is far from 60C but you can easily experience 0C in a winter? Well check it out, 50C is closer to 60C by about 50C difference from 0C. This 50C tends to be near 60C when compared to 0C and really 49 other whole numbers of degrees Celsius! An infinity of numbers if you add decimal places.