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Which is an example of conduction?

Soup is warmed in a microwave oven.
A hand is burned when touching a pot handle.
Air above an ocean warms up and rises.
A stone gets hot from sitting outside on a sunny day.

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"A hand is burned when touching a pot handle."

Explanation: Conduction is heat transfer by direct contact—heat flows from the hot pot handle into the hand. The others are different modes: microwave heating and the sun heating a stone are radiation, and air warming and rising is convection.