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minus-squareBronzie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months agoSerious 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-squarecorsicanguppylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWith 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-up1·8 months agoI 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.