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Mystery #1Tier 1-2heat, air, convection

How does one small radiator manage to warm a whole big room?

One skinny radiator sits against a single wall, yet somehow the whole room turns cosy, right up to the corner furthest away. The radiator never moves and it certainly cannot reach across the carpet to touch you. So how does its heat get all the way over there?

A white column radiator mounted on a tiled wall, with a numbered thermostatic valve at one end.
Photo: Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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