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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why does chrome get so hot in the sun? Should it not reflect most light and stay cool?

I have found out the hard way that chrome gets hot in the sun. But it's super reflective, does it actually absorb that much light?
gpt
The chrome, due to reflectivity, could actually be cooler than the black plastic trim on the car, but it feels warmer. Your skin does not sense temperature, it senses the flow of heat into or out of the skin. Since chrome is a metal, it is an excellent conductor. Once the heat from the chrome directly in contact with your hand has moved to your hand, heat flows from the rest of the chrome object to the newly cooled section and then into your hand. The chrome therefore feels very hot. For the actually hotter black plastic, which is a poor conductor, after the heat from the plastic directly under your hand passed to your hand, it is difficult for the heat in the rest of the object to flow to the cooled area to get to your hand. So the plastic only feels warm, instead of hot.