recapitated@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 年前What product brings a lot more value than its cost to purchase?message-squaremessage-square161linkfedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down17
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minus-squareBronzie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 年前Serious question: why is it called a “hot water heater”? If anything, it heats cold water to make it hot. Why not just “water heater”?
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前With the missing hyphen, we’d better understand it’s for scalding water. It just became less cool to write all the symbols required.
minus-squareantlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前I don’t know. I wanted to say “hot water on tap”, to differentiate from a tea kettle, which is also a water heater. But the prompt was about items you might purchase, and I’ve always called it a hot water heater.
Serious question: why is it called a “hot water heater”?
If anything, it heats cold water to make it hot.
Why not just “water heater”?
With the missing hyphen, we’d better understand it’s for scalding water. It just became less cool to write all the symbols required.
I don’t know. I wanted to say “hot water on tap”, to differentiate from a tea kettle, which is also a water heater. But the prompt was about items you might purchase, and I’ve always called it a hot water heater.