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Hi

If I put my hand in a bucket of iced water for long enough, it goes
sort-of-blue, but if I sit in a sauna I go quite reddish.

> > At least in the case of electric charge, the color convention is
> > entirely arbitrary. I still find it annoying that in most B-factor
> > ("thermal") plots, blue generally means cold and red means hot. This is
> > counter-physical.
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> Well, not quite counter-physical: take iron and heat it, it will turn
> orange-red. And ice has a blue hue.

Harry
-- 
Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Hills
Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH


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