You may have experienced that metals often feel "cold" to the touch. Consider a block of copper and a block of wood, each with the same mass. Both have sat in the same room for a long time, and so both are presumably at room temperature. You touch both the copper and the wood, and the copper feels considerably colder to you. Why is this? Explain.

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