Hey anyone knows which common materials get the warmest for heat absorption?

Hey anyone knows which common materials get the warmest for heat absorption?


Diamond is the best heat conductor followed by metals--silver being the best but the less expensive copper is used more frequently. Then come quartz and glass followed by wood, styrofoam, wool, siilica aerogel, air, water, ice, and mercury--another metal which is somehow not a very good heat conductor.


CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Material Thermal conductivity (298K)

W/mK
Diamond 895-2300
Silver 429
Copper 386
Gold 317
Aluminium 237
Brass 120
Platinum 71.6
Iron 80.2
Lead 35.3
Quartz (273K) 6.8-12
Glass 1.35
Wood 0.04 (balsa) - 0.35 (fir)
Styrofoam 0.033
Wool 0.04
Silica aerogel 0.017
Air (100 kPa) 0.0262
Water 0.6062
Ice (273K) 2.2
Mercury 8.514


Pots are fitted with copper bottoms because copper is a good conductor while the rest of the pot can be made of stainless steel-a mediocre heat conductor which will make the transfer of heat from the food in the pan and into the atmosphere slower.

Write an experiment on heat conductivity?