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Question
A red hot ball is suspended from the ceiling of a room using a thin metallic wire.
Name the ways in which the ball loses heat.
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Solution
As no material medium surrounds the ball so there is no possibility of losing heat by conduction or convection. The ball will lose heat by Radiation.
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