an obscure question, i know, but is there a word for when your skin freezes to metal? like when you take an ice tray out of the freezer and your hand sticks to it? i've been looking for such a word to describe this but have only found, "cryoablution," which is like when a wart is removed using liquid nitrogen. i was curious about finding a word to describe this and hope that somebody can help. there MUST be a word for this!

Remember how we were prevented form putting our lips to frozen railings when we were children. So the only word connected to it I remember is don't!
Welcome.

i think the word is chill

WELCOME JENGA AND SINDU

theodilition?

(don't mind me; not excogitating at all here)

No theodelusion, the word is frost agglutination.

Frost agglutination??
Is that like a snow job, typical of politicians???

When I lived in AK, it was a very common thing to happen. I never heard anyone use any words other than "got stuck to" or "got stuck on" to describe it. It can be extremely painful if temps are very far below zero.

You can get frostbit from this, but the worst thing I ever saw was when a neighbor went out to unplug his car one morning. If your car is not running for more than a few minutes, the oil will get too thick for the car to start and so they "hitching posts" which were posts that contained outlets where you plugged in your car (I don't know what they're really called, but that's what we called them.) There was a "blanket" like thing in your engine that would keep your engine kinda warm so your car would start. Every house, apartment or even grocery stores had these things. Anyway, one more a neighbor went out to unplug his car and his parka pulled away from his mitten as he was retracting the electrical chord and his wrist got stuck to the bumper. He immediately jerked away and a big chunk of frozen meat stayed attached to the bumper. Not a nice way to start the day.

Anyway, I never heard any special word for it.

A not-so-nice cartoon in the paper the other day had
Al Gore with his tongue stuck to a post called "Global Warming"....Hope everyone is staying warm. We have
-40 deg wind chills forecast for this night.

Here is a website which talks about thermal conductivity and why your tongue/hand sticks to cold metal... link

As if we need a reason.....???
You are just a compendium of info. Long may you reign!!!

If you're really interested: Here

Surely it will illicit great heaving guffaws from people whose scientific "knowledge" consists of headlines and sound-bites and who don't know the difference between weather and climate.

I knew there would be an explanation for it all.

WOW, bexter, what a great site! Thank you! [blowing kiss e]

He is good....isn't he

I know the word for brain freeze (the pain you get sometimes from eating ice-cream)......its, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

Lots of people experience that, but I never have.
Guess I am lucky.

Once,and only once, when I was a youngster, I got my tongue struck to the steel bumper of my sled. If I hadn't gotten it free, I probably wouldn't care if there were a word for it.

Peter

It gives me goosebumps to just think about the
experience. It's in that Christmas movie about the
boy who wants a b-b gun, isn't it? I only watched
it one time, once was enough, but I think I remember
such a scene.

I certainly get goosebumps remembering it.

It's a funny enough and probably common-enough
experience though, I know discussion of it comes
up somewhere every winter.