Radiators - Why Do We Call Them That?

by Mary Barbara Dickins The appliances found in most households that we commonly refer to as radiators, in my humble opinion, should not be called radiators as they do not technically radiate. In fact, radiators transfer heat using convection. Radiation refers to energy being projected outwards in waves in all different directions to then be absorbed by the first body it collides with, whether that is a human being or an object of some kind. Convection is the process of heating liquid, w