It doesn't make sense to me that wool would produce heat as it dries. Production of heat would result from a chemical process, while water evaporating from wool is a physical process. I am not a chemist or a physicist, but it seems to me that wool would produce heat when it burns, not when it dries.
Also, the warm feet in wool socks would either be because the cold water didn't penetrate the socks, or it did penetrate, and the socks held the water next to the skin where it warmed up with body heat. This is how a wetsuit works. IMHO, Merry Luskin, Oakland CA Reference librarian and handspinner Great site: Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
