Talk:Cold burn

Picture
I think, I had a cold burn when I was about five, but can't really tell by descrption. Maybe, someone could add picture?

Two-way heat/cold transfer
I don't think a cold burn is just heat transferring from the skin to the cold "body." The coldness transfers to the skin too. And "body" is a bad word for the cold material. -Barry- 06:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that there's not really such a thing as "cold"--only the absence of heat. Ardric47 08:02, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, basic science, cold doesn't transfer, heat only transfers over from one object to another object. So, any cold substance touches any other warm substance, they become ultimately equal temperature with the cold substance gaining heat, warm substance losing heat.  The skin doesn't technically gain, it just loses heat.  Semantics anyway.

merge to burn (injury)
Couldn't this stub be merged in to the Burn (injury) page? Gogabego 01:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it should stay seperate because a cold burn "burns" differently than a heat burn, just as chemical and radiation burns "burn" differently (they each have their own pages)

Modified redirect to Frostbite
Since the cold burn article was merged to Burn, all of the content was deleted as unverifiable. Someone there suggested that someone looking for information on a "cold burn" was likely looking for information on frostbite instead. So, it stands to reason that this page should redirect to frostbite and not burn. On the other hand, if a cold burn is neither a burn nor frostbite, and there are no resources to say what it is, then this page should probably just be deleted outright. Ivanvector (talk) 22:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)